Illustrations and rhyming text describe the activities of animals living in and near a small pond as spring progresses to autumn.

Learn all about baby animals on the farm.

While reading a bedtime story starring sleepy animals dozing off, the unflappable narrator, distracted by nocturnal animals who have anything but sleep on their minds, improvises the nocturnal brood into the verse.

While Little Mole is bringing home a beautiful mushroom as a Christmas gift for his mother, he encounters woodland friends in need and shares the mushroom with them.

Unhappy with his nose, Arthur visits the rhinologist to get a new one.

Maisy the mouse and her friends spend a night camping under the stars.

As a large storm approaches, snails Esther and Solomon make their way to the ark.

"Shark can go. Can clam go? Clam can sit. Is this it? Do not fear. Shark is here!" --

"The two newest moles in the forest learn to dig themselves out of their comfort zones and experience the boundless, unpredictable world around them"