The field mice try to thwart Scraggly Sam the weasel's plan to make a tasty meal out of a sleepy dormouse.

Best friends Little Red the fox and dormouse Hazel love to play in the forest, but as winter comes and Hazel gets sleepy, Little Red tries to think of ways to keep her awake.

"It is spring and Little Red fox is excited to be reunited with his best friend, Hazel, a dormouse who will shortly wake from a long sleep. But over the winter, the fox has made another friend, Brock the badger. Little Red decides revealing the new friendship is not the surprise Hazel will want to wake to, so he delays bringing it up as they resume their games. Bu the fox needs to find a way to introduce the friends while maintaining the special friendship...

Dormouse hibernates and dreams of spring until spring arrives, and along with it comes his dormouse friend.

A lonely dormouse who cannot find a friend and a giant who is an outcast from forest society find solace in each other's company. Each character begins his story from his own half of the book and they meet in the middle.

"Dormouse wakes up in a different bed each day. In Rabbit's carrot box, in Robin's tie drawer, and even on Deer's antlers. But why doesn't Dormouse sleep in his own bed?"--Page [4] of cover.

Spring is finally here and the dormice are waking up from their hibernation. All except one: It's the little dormouse who went to bed much too late in the fall and is therefore still sleeping very deeply. Animal after animal comes to wake him up, but no matter what they do, the little dormouse just won't wake up. Or maybe yes?