Big brother bunny does not like it at all when a new baby arrives, and he refuses to "love" the baby like everyone said, until one night when he heard the baby cry and no one went to him.
Felix does not like his new baby sister and thinks his parents should take her back, but a trip to the zoo makes him realize that she might not be as bad as he first thought.
During the Passamaquoddy winter migration in Maine, Baby Zoo Sap falls off the family bobsled and the forest animals hearing his cries, gather to protect him until his father returns to find him.
The overwhelming love of parents for their new baby is gloriously portrayed in warm, loving poetry accompanied by lush, glowing oil paintings of a radiantly rosy-cheeked young child.
A mother tells her baby how she would care for it if it were a bunny, a kitten, or other animal infant; she then sings a lullaby about each baby animal.