The forest animals' Christmas celebrations keep interrupting Grumpy Badger's winter hibernation, until he decides to join them.

Unmoved by his friends' attempts draw him out with singing classes and snowball fights, Tortoise tries to settle down for his annual winter nap and instead stumbles into a wonderfully icy experience.

Worried that they will not have enough dreams for their upocming witer hibernation, Little Bear journeys into the woods and collects dreams of happiness, homecoming, and hope from the different animals in the forest.

Bear, with the help of his animal friends, remembers the story he had hoped to tell before the onset of winter.

Groundhog decides not to hibernate one winter, even though his friends tell him that he will become cold, hungry, and lonely.