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Through a hole in the book’s cover, an owl invites you inside to meet a majestic tree and all its forest inhabitants during the changing seasons. With clever peekaboo holes throughout, each page reveals a new set of animals playing and living in the tree—baby bears frolicking in the spring, bees buzzing around apples in the summer, squirrels storing nuts in the fall, and finally the lone owl keeping warm during the winter chill—until another year begins. . . .
 
Children will love seeing a new set of animals appear and then disappear as each page is turned, and along the way they’ll learn about the seasons and how a forest and its inhabitants change throughout the year.

從樹幹上的洞洞望出去，你就會發現，不管晴天或雨天、颳風或下雪，繁忙的自然世界時時刻刻不停的運轉。
透過一幅幅精美的藝術作品，將一年的春夏秋冬活靈活現的躍然於紙上。書中充滿了動態、空氣感的驚豔畫風；文字簡單易懂幾乎每一句都押韻上口；內容上既有自然奇觀又不缺乏實質的、可供孩子們認知發現的豐富動植物。
書中使用簡單的又符合孩子朗讀的語句，顯示出作者文筆功力！但你看看知道作者的出身就一點都不奇怪了，因為作者是大名鼎鼎的Patricia Hegarty！她在多年前就開始從事兒童圖書出版工作，現任毛毛蟲圖書公司的編輯總監，對兒童語言學習規律的掌握可以說是爐火純青！由蘋果樹(房東)的生長，和住在樹洞的貓頭鷹（房客），以順應自然的生活態度，靜觀四季流轉。
春天的樹冒出了綠油油的嫩芽，從冬眠中甦醒的動物恢復元氣。夏天的樹充滿茂密的葉子，在樹下活動的生物既安全又涼快。秋天的樹像是被施了魔法，將綠色葉子染成既像黃色又像紅色的混搭色調。冬天的樹還有白雪陪襯光禿禿的枝幹，靜待大自然捎來春天的消息。