Illustrations from fourteen accomplished artists relate twenty-four traditional short advent stories in a book full of tales of sharing, tradition, and festivities.

A rhyming tale celebrates the music and magic that fill a graveyard one special night each year, when all sorts of creatures gather for a circus, and the endpapers unfold into giant illustrations to reveal the magical Halloween circus.

Although she has many toys, Mina wants a teddy bear and repeatedly asks her parents for one, until her doctor visits one day when she is sick and tells her a special story that makes her appreciate what she already had.

Since he whines whenever he loses, Rocky is not a welcomed playmate and so Humphrey decides to teach him an important lesson by taking him fishing and showing him that everything doesn't need to end in a victory to be fun.

Timmy, who is not good at sharing his new toys, gets a mysterious letter from Santa Claus about a Christmas surprise and, with the aid of his friend Humphrey, finds his way to a merry Christmas.

When Henry the Hippo goes for a visit to his uncle's house, he is upset to discover that the local kids won't let him play hide-and-seek, so his uncle steps in and shows him a great spot that soon leads to his becoming a member of the hide-and-seek team.