Eight-year-old Sophie learns about some special emerald berries that will make the perfect color for a painting she wants to do, so she asks her friend Hattie to go with her to Weedsnag Way, a part of the forest that is far from home and very frightening.

"Sophie Mouse's brother, Winston, wants to help her build a fort in the woods, but Sophie Mouse tells him he should go home because he's too little. When she realizes that she could use his help, he's nowhere to be found!" -- Provided by publisher.

While Sophie Mouse and her forest friends are playing in the snow one day, they accidentally wake a hibernating hedgehog named Pippa, who is a little grumpy at first, but Sophie, Hattie, and Owen show her all the fun things to do in wintertime.

"Sophie Mouse gets a surprise visitor when a little bird lands in her yard and hurts his wing"--

As a school assignment, all the students at Silverlake Elementary are building boats, but Sophie worries that they will not be able to use the boats when there is no rain to fill the pond.

Sophie Mouse and her friends are playing hide-and-seek near Butterfly Brook. Sophie finds the perfect hiding spot, but she finds something else, too! It's a glowing cave. The problem is, when Sophie tells her friends about her discovery, they don't believe her! After all, who's ever heard of a cave that glows? Now Sophie is on a mission to prove she's telling the truth!

When her mother enters the town's baking competition, Sophie is excited to be her mother's assistant and tries to come up with some new recipes to prepare for the contest.

Sophie's friend Hattie tries out for a play at Oak Hollow Theater in this sixteenth charming book of The Adventures of Sophie Mouse series! When Hattie Frog learns that Oak Hollow Theater is putting on a play and anyone can audition, she knows it's her time to shine. Sophie is surprised because Hattie is usually so shy! But she supports her friend and helps Hattie practice for her audition. And Hattie gets a role! There's just one problem. Now Hattie...

Sophie the mouse, Hattie the frog, and Owen the snake find a charming and apparently abandoned cottage hidden in the woods, and soon start spending all their free time there, cleaning and fixing it up for Mrs. Rabbit's family who are in need of a home--the project is going find until the owner shows up.

When Sophie Mouse's brother, Winston, gets sick, she starts to envy all the attention he is getting, but when she gets sick herself, she regrets ever wishing this on herself.