A middle aged man named Bill participates in the Thanksgiving Day Parade. Bill is hit with a wave of nostalgia when he walks past an old toy store where he once played when he was a kid. He sees his favorite toy, A Toy Soldier named Winston. Bill gets the best Christmas gift when he is reunited with people that were very dear to him when he was a child, making it the best Christmas ever.

A middle aged man named Bill participates in the Thanksgiving Day Parade. Bill is hit with a wave of nostalgia when he walks past an old toy store where he once played when he was a kid. He sees his favorite toy, A Toy Soldier named Winston. Bill gets the best Christmas gift when he is reunited with people that were very dear to him when he was a child, making it the best Christmas ever.

Three children are visiting their grandparents in Vermont and find a toy soldier and toy dog in the snow. The toys come to life and inform the children that they want to find the little boy who had left them there. Together they are magically transported through a potbelly stove in a general store to another store in the miniature village of Duxbury where they experience a number of fantastical adventures.

Explores the effect of the challenges of World War II on American children and teenagers.