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

Sam decides to send his toy monkey Timbo to kindergarten in his place, but after telling Timbo about his school friends and what his day is really like, he realizes he wants to go himself. Reprint.

When Fox invites Stork to have dinner with him and then feeds her dinner in a bowl from which she cannot possible eat, Stork decides to teach Fox a lesson by giving him a dose of his own medicine, in a colorfully illustrated Aesop fable.

Surrounded by massive pine trees filled with birds and squirrels, a tiny fir tree, tired of being so small and useless, learns a valuable lesson during the magical season of Christmas.

In a comic fantasy about the power of self-confidence, Filbert is blissfully flying along when a cantankerous sea gull brings him down, literally, with the reminder that penguins cannot fly.

Determined to do whatever he wants, a mischievous little boy sends his mother to the moon so that he can have full run of the house, yet as evening arrives and he winds down, he realizes that he was wrong and wishes his mother was there to give him his good night kiss.

Sam decides to send his toy monkey Timbo to kindergarten in his place, but after telling Timbo about his school friends and what his day is really like, he realizes he wants to go himself.