After a harsh winter, Mousekin's springtime search for food brings him in contact with brightly colored eggs, a white rabbit, and other symbols of Easter.

Mousekin decides to try some defense techniques to avoid becoming a victim of the bigger forest animals.

As a mouse journeys through the forest he investigates something for each letter of the alphabet--acorns, bats, cottontails, etc.

A white-footed mouse finds himself all alone as the woodland he lives in is destroyed.