The more a baby cries, the more she grows, until her brother thinks of a way to reverse the process and turn his gigantic sister into a normal-sized infant.
Mr. and Mrs. Bear and the other forest animals despair of ever getting Baby Bear to stop crying and go to sleep, but Small Bear knows just how to solve the problem.
As his fifth birthday party approaches, Little Rabbit decides to invite only those friends who are also too old to cry--until he learns that others of all ages weep for all sorts of reasons.