In the Kindergarten class, Junior was taking his new book he got for Christmas for show and tell.

"Hi, JJ!" a voice called out.

"Hi, Rosie." Junior blushed to the troll loving girl in his class.

"Are you going to show everyone your book?" Rosie smiled.

"Uh-huh, I love this one..." Junior smiled back. "It's called Franklin the Turtle... He goes on 'ventures like Momo and her friends..." he then pouted. "I wish I could go on a 'venture."

"Maybe one day, you will." Rosie assured him.

"Hmm..." Junior hummed slightly.

"Welcome back, class, I hope you all had a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year," the teacher smiled to her students. "Today will be a special day as we share what we got this year for Show and Tell before nap time."


All of the students soon cheered as they were all excited. The teacher smiled to their excitement as she then started the day by making sure they were all there, they were then given a drawing assignment and luckily the time went by quick enough and it was time for Show and Tell before nap time as the teacher shared holiday cookies with them and where they were all excited about Show and Tell.

"All right, now it's time for show and tell..." the teacher smiled. "I hope you were all nice this year and Santa didn't give you lumps of coal."

"We've been good!" The students smiled.

The teacher giggled to them. "All right, who would like to go first?"

Many boys and girls went first and their gifts seemed to be mostly toy trucks and baby dolls. Junior then came up as it was his turn as he showed the book he got. Rosie was excited for Junior.

"What's this book, Junior?" the teacher smiled.

"It's about a turtle named Franklin," Junior explained. "He can count by twos and tie his shoes!"

"Ooh." The kids smiled.

"Fascinating." the teacher smiled as well.

"Momo says that turtles are reptiles." Junior continued.

"Nuh-uh, they live in the water and lay eggs like frogs!" a boy disagreed.

"That don't mean they're frogs!" Junior angrily pouted to the boy.

"Junior is right, class." The teacher said.

"Oh..." the boy that tried to contradict Junior then frowned. "Sorry about that..."

"Your sister told you that, Junior?" the teacher smiled to the blonde boy.

"Yeah, she's so smart, that's why she's in high school." Junior smiled back.

"That she is." The teacher smiled.

Junior smiled back, he then continued to talk about his book.

"Okay, class, nap time, let's get into our spaces." the teacher clapped her hands as she dimmed the lights and put a timer on and whe nit would go off, she would wake her students up for the next activity.

"I really hope I get to have a 'venture someday..." Junior sighed sleepily as he took a spot next to Rosie as he took his shoes off.

Unknown to Junior, both him and Rosie would soon be on their adventure. The teacher played lullaby music to make the kids fall asleep faster and easier. Junior and Rosie fell asleep beside each other until Junior's cubby appeared to be glowing green around the book that was given to the boy for Christmas and where in an instant, Junior and Rosie were teleported away.


Little did they know that they were going to change in appearance and were going to become different animals and no longer humans for this adventure as they were arriving into a woodland village in the dead of winter. And where they would be in the appearance of their favorite animals. Junior and Rosie shivered as they suddenly opened their eyes and looked around as they realized they weren't in their Kindergarten class anymore.

"Where are we?" Junior asked as he looked around.

"Junior, is that you?" Rosie's voice asked.

"Of course it's me, who else would I-" Junior replied before he turned to see Rosie who was now a bunny rabbit. "Rosie?!"

"You look different." Rosie said to Junior.

"You look different too." Junior said.

The two came up to the frozen pond and saw their reflections, Junior saw that he was some sort of dog like the ones he grew up with. They looked curiously to each other as they wondered how and why this was happening as a moose family came out and appeared to be smiling at the snow.

"Where should we go?" Rosie asked Junior.

There was then laughter and playing heard.

"Did you hear that?" Junior asked as his new canine sense of hearing picked up the sound from far away.

"I sure did." Rosie said as she could also hear it with her rabbit ears.

"Come on, let's go find them, maybe they can help us." Junior suggested.

Junior and Rosie then ran together as they went to find the other kids in this village for help. There appeared to be a young boy turtle who was making snow lumps in the ground.

"No, way, it can't be." Junior said.

"Is that Franklin?" Rosie asked.

"It looks like the pictures in the book..." Junior replied.

"But how is this possible?" Rosie asked.

"This has to be a dream..." Junior said.


The other animal kids, a rabbit, a bear, and a goose were making snow angels in the snow and laughing together.

"Making snow angels is fun!" The goose smiled.

"Look, look, I made a snow angel too!" A snail came out from a small hole in the snow and smiled back.

"Good one, Snail." The bear smiled at snail.

"There's Bear, Snail, Goose, and Rabbit." Junior recognized.

"Wait, so Franklin's name is not Turtle but everyone else has animal names?" Rosie asked. "Why?"

Junior was about to answer, but he looked stumped about that himself. "I don't know... I never thought about that before."

"The writer must have not thought of names for them." Rosie said.

"I'll never know..." Junior shrugged.

Franklin was still making his snow sculptures and his friends were all now ice-skating on the pond. The female Beaver lost control and slid through the frozen cattails as she slid across the ice.


"Should we join the fun?" Rosie asked Junior.

"Yeah! I love playing in the snow!" Junior laughed.

Rosie laughed with him and they joined the other animal kids in on the winter fun.

"Whee!" Snail cheered as he laughed on Bear's head as Bear held Goose and Rabbit's hands. "Let's play 'Crack the Whip'!"

"Sure, how do you play it?" Goose asked.

"This!" Bear said before demonstrating and spinning with Goose and Rabbit.

Goose and Rabbit yelped slightly.

"There." Franklin smiled as he put a head on the smallest snow lump.

"That looks cool." Junior smiled. He and Rosie then joined in on the game and where no one seemed to notice them yet.

"Hey, Rabbit, do you have cousins visiting?" Bear asked.

"No, why?" Rabbit replied before looking to Rosie as she was also a bunny rabbit like him, but he obviously did not recognize her.

"Well, then, who's that next to her?" Beaver asked.

"I dunno..." Rabbit shrugged, then came up to Rosie as they came onto the snowy ground. "Who are you?"

"I'm Rosie and this is Junior." Rosie introduced.

"Hi." Junior waved.

"Are you guys new to Woodland?" Bear asked.

"Um... I guess..." Junior shrugged, not really sure what to say to that.

"Well, welcome to Woodland anyway," Beaver smiled. "I'd be more than happy to show you around."

"Thanks." Rosie said.

"Let's have a snowball fight now." Bear suggested.

"Yeah!" Junior nodded eagerly in agreement.

They all then had a snowball fight together with their new friends.