Frederick, the poet mouse, stores up something special for the long cold winter. "While other mice are gathering food for the winter, Frederick seems to daydream the summer away. When dreary weather comes, it is Frederick the poet-mouse who warms his friends and cheers them with his words".-Wilson Library Bulletin. Illustrated. A field mouse appears to be ignoring the coming of winter, but actually he is not.

To keep from being eaten, an inchworm measures a robin's tail, a flamingo's neck, a toucan's beak, a heron's legs, and a nightingale's song.