Presents the rhyming story of a young girl's encounters with the gifts that nature has to offer.

Little Critter's Christmas gift for his teacher, Miss Kitty, seems perfect until Blue sinks his teeth into it.

Mr. Pip the monkey gets depressed because he does not think the gift he has for his friend Frederick Lipton, the famous actor, is special enough.

Little Critter finds the best birthday present for his sister--

Muriel the duck visits all of her friends on her birthday to invite them to a party.

Day after day in the frozen north, a young Inuit girl catches brightly-colored objects while ice fishing and uses them to decorate her igloo, until the ice begins to melt and she drops in a gift of her own before leaving for the season.

Jory fears that he is too small to find a suitable gift to welcome the new parson.

Intimidated and dejected by the other animals' stories about the important gifts brought by their ancestors to the stable where Jesus was born, Pippin the pig performs an act of kindness and discovers the true meaning of Christmas giving.

Treated by her family as a princess, Gigi imagines herself to be of royal birth so when she unwraps her gifts on Christmas morning expecting a crown, she gets a big surprise.