"Loud and in-charge Big Duck, quiet and clever Little Duck, and friendly and gentle Porcupine are back in another charming trio of stories"--

A little porcupine just wants a hug, but all the other animals shy away from his prickly spikes--except for a snake.

A child figures out the best way to hug a porcupine as he watches his friends hug other animals.

Butterfly wakes up while Porcupine is having breakfast, and Porcupine tries to explain what it means to be nocturnal and Butterfly considers the advantages of a nighttime life while trying to get back to sleep.

A lonely porcupine is ecstatic to find another spiky specimen and best friend in a Cactus, but after a miscommunication, Porcupine decides Cactus is downright prickly, and the two must mend their friendship.

"Elmore the porcupine has made many friends in the forest. But he longs for a best friend. Being a prickly porcupine doesn't make that easy. Pinky the skunk would also like a best friend. In their day-to-day encounters with each other, and following an especially adventurous event, the best friend unexpectedly reveals himself. He has been there all along"--

A porcupine named Fluffy is happier with his name after he meets a similarly misnamed rhinoceros.

As graduation day approaches, Isabel tries to convince her teacher that she and Walter, both porcupines, should receive balloons on the big day just like the other children.

Poppy, accompanied by her troublesome son Junior, his skunk friend, and Uncle Ereth the porcupine, responds to a summons to return to her ancestral home, Gray House, to save the mice there from destruction by a bulldozer.

After a long, hard winter in Dimwood forest, Poppy the deer mouse finds new adventure thrust upon her while rescuing Ereth the porcupine from the mud.