Rabbit and Bear enjoy the wonderful feeling of being best friends, until they find a strange object in the woods and argue over whose picture appears within.
Bertie Bear, unwilling to share with Baby Bear, goes off to sulk in a tree, and even though the tree provides him with pancakes, a blanket, and light, he soon begins to miss his mom and brother.
Determined to find out what Santa Claus looks like, a little bear sleeps as much as he can before winter hibernation, wakes himself up with his mother's alarm clock, and sets out into the snowy countryside.
Big Bear, always alone, likes that he can slurp his soup, burp, and make other noises, not realizing that the rabbits across the river think the loud noises and odors are coming from a monster.