Searching for a convenient nesting-place, befuddled Jemima Puddle-Duck chooses a fox's den.

Wandering through a winter forest, a lonely fox has an enchanting vision and then finds the companionship for which he has been longing.

The cozy pictures "evoke the sensory pleasures of the winter woods as well as the comforts of friendship and a close community," commented Booklist. It's Christmas Eve, and the rabbits have moved to a new burrow. Fletcher is excited about celebrating the holiday with them, until he realizes...Santa Claus won't know where to deliver their presents! But after a cozy night of caroling and blackberry pie, Fletcher wakes to a snowy Christmas morning full...

Three farmers, each one meaner than the other, try all-out warfare to get rid of the fox and his family.

Fox babysits for the miserable Ling children, makes a big scene when he slips on a skate and hurts himself, and gets to lead the band in the big parade.

A crafty fox thinks he is too clever to go to school, but when he visits the chicken coop to capture one of the chickens, they outsmart him by claiming to all have colds.

In old Japan, the daughter of a village innkeeper feeds a samurai warrior who turns out to be a fox. Pleased by the girl's kindness, the magical creature rewards her with a black kettle. As long as she cares for the kettle as if it were her own child, the fox tells her, the village rice crops will flourish forever. All is well until the girl is ordered to move to the landowner's household and leave all her belongings behind. With the kettle no longer...