Wade is a young moose who loves playing with his friends. When he realizes one fall morning that his antlers are "wiggly" he is worried. He does not want them to fall off because he uses them for so many different things. He decides that if he is very careful, they will not fall off. He stops playing with his friends and sits on the sidelines. His mother explains to him that he will grow new ones in the spring, but he is still afraid. As he sits and watches his friends, he realizes that he is missing out on a lot of things, so he jumps back in to playing with his friends and decides that if they fall off, that is fine.

The message in this book is that Wade has to learn to accept that he is growing up and that with growing up comes change. He also realizes that change just might not be so bad after all. He has a lot of fun when he has no antlers, in fact he can do some things he could not do before, like win at "hide and seek". The illustrations in this children's book are wonderful. I love how the different animals are depicted. They are not completely realistic, but not too stylized that they are unrecognizable. They show expressions well and have a lot of colour and activity in them. This would be a great book to have in a family library to use with the little ones as they are growing up as well as in school and community libraries.