Harriet Harrington is an author who lives alone in a little house in the North Woods and prefers it that way, until her friend Monique convinces her to bring a Bichon Frise puppy home for just one week.
Grace loves the Farmer's Fair and can't wait for its return. She keeps asking her mother when fair time will come, but almost a whole year must pass before it does.
The reader is invited to follow the paw prints of a rambunctious golden retriever and then identify his animal friends by studying their tracks in the snow.