When a deep winter snow carpets the Green Forest and nearby meadow, Granny Fox and Reddy have some disagreements on how best to find some food. But Granny - with her years of experience - wins out over Reddy and teaches him quite a bit about patience, common sense, and resourcefulness.

Old Granny Fox Thornton W. Burgess - Burgess presents life as a fox and the struggles that Old Granny Fox and her nephew, Reddy, find themselves. Winter is hard when mice, birds and rabbits are not available. But Reddy Fox thinks it will be as easy as pie to steal Farmer Brown's chickens by daylight and then elude Bowser the Hound. What will happen?

Reddy Fox lives with Granny Fox and learns many things from her.

"That's the trouble with thoughtlessness; it never remembers other people. " ―Thornton W. Burgess - A Must-Read! - Includes Illustrations of Burgess and His Books

When Bowser the Hound gets lost in the Green Forest, Blacky the Crow and other animals decide to help him.

Old Man Coyote, a stranger to the Green Meadows, frightens the forest folk and becomes an opponent to Old Granny Fox.