Mr. P. Bear decides to throw a formal New Year's party, and invites his friends--pandas, penguins, dairy cows, skunks, and whale--to count down the time until it is Happy New Year.
Explains the origins and meaning of New Year's Day, a holiday that celebrates the start of a new year, and looks at how and where New Year's Day is observed.
A former talk-show host, a musician, a teenage girl, and a mother, each intending to commit suicide, find themselves together on the roof of a London building and begin to contemplate their individual choices and circumstances.
The Screeching Owls travel to Ottawa to play in the Bell Capital Cup, where leaders from all over the world will spend their New Year's Eve watching the team compete and a terrorist plans to attack.
Frightened into sleeplessness by the noisy celebration of the Chinese New Year, a young girl takes comfort in her grandmother's soothing story of a dragon, a mother's sorrow,and Buddha.
Angelina and some other mice are preparing for a New Year's Eve ice skating show, but the hockey players keep getting in the way until Angelina gets them involved.
