Danny Meadow Mouse learns to laugh, Grandfather Frog gets even, and the Merry Little Breezes have a busy day in the second volume of Thornton Burgess's popular Green Forest series. These heartwarming tales recount the adventures of Peter Rabbit, Reddy Fox, Jimmy Skunk, Hooty the Owl, and other endearing characters. Suffused with gentle humor and embellished by George Kerr's illustrations from the original 1911 edition, the stories offer children enduring lessons about wildlife ecology. This edition includes a new Foreword by John Richmond of the Thornton W. Burgess Society.

Tuktu and Aklak are young Eskimo siblings who live with their father and help him with his job, being reindeer herder. One day, one of the reindeer gets lost on Tutku's watch and she goes on to search it, but gets lost in a fog of the mysterious Kringle Valley, the home of the Good Spirit where no man has ever stepped. Tutktu wakes up and meets the Good Spirit, or Santa Claus as she knows him, and gets introduced to many mysteries of the Kringle Valley, as well as Christmas tradition and Santa's duties. As she goes back to her village, Tutku has a hard time convincing her brother and father...