"Loud and in-charge Big Duck, quiet and clever Little Duck, and friendly and gentle Porcupine are back in another charming trio of stories"--Provided by publisher.

Rabbit needs to clean her room, but when Pete the Problem-Solving Porcupine's plan causes more of a mess, Rabbit needs to quickly come up with her own strategy before chaos ensues.

After his dog tangles with a porcupine, Christopher fears for his pet's safety until he thinks of a way to pacify the porcupine.

When their home next to a brook is destroyed by beavers, a large family of golden mice is aided by Poppy the deer mouse and her grumpy porcupine friend, who in the process forges a relationship with the son he had abandoned.

Poppy, accompanied by her troublesome son Junior, his skunk friend, and Uncle Ereth the porcupine, responds to a summons to return to her ancestral home, Gray House, to save the mice there from destruction by a bulldozer.

Un pequeño puercoespín solo quiere un abrazo, pero todos los demás animales se alejan de sus púas espinosas, excepto una serpiente. A little porcupine just wants a hug, but all the other animals shy away from his prickly spikes--except for a snake.

Even though the other animals exclude him from the Christmas play because of his quills, Little Porcupine still ends up in a starring role.

A child figures out the best way to hug a porcupine as he watches his friends hug other animals.

Cork the muskrat tries to persuade his best friend Fuzz, a possum, to help babysit for a porcupine.

Elmore is a porcupine desperate to make friends. But it is hard to seek closeness with others when you re covered with spikes that shoot off your back every so often. Elmore suffers rejection and heartbreak, but the goodness of his forest community ultimately shines through as the animals find a way to connect with this prickly bundle of love.