Short stories featuring Donald Duck, Mickey Mouse, Big Bad Wolf, Scamp, and other Disney characters. In "Chimera," Donald and the nephews chase an apparent abominable snowman through the depths of Duckburg's snowy woods. "Snow Beast" brings another yeti to life - this time a King Kong-sized, Mickey Mouse-battling brute who's under the power of an ancient curse. "All Creatures Great and Small" On New Year's Day, Donald makes a resolution to tolerate the nephews' annoying pets... while the unknowing nephews make a resolution to set them all free in "All Creatures Great and Small." In "Zeke's Gold Stars," the Big Bad Wolf's mom makes him resolve to behave himself this year. "Diner Sore" shows a hungry Gladstone trying to use his infamous luck to net himself a fancy dinner. In "Rhino Plastered," Daisy Duck is busy replastering her walls, so she really doesn't need a rhinoceros running around the house The book is rounded out by part two of "The Magnificent Seven Minus Four Caballeros," a new Donald serial by Don Rosa.
William Roger Van Horn (born February 15, 1939) is an American cartoonist. Van Horn debuted professionally in his forties with the black-and-white comic book Nervous Rex (1985-1987). A huge fan of Carl Barks, from 1988 Van Horn became a Disney comics artist and writer, producing for decades Donald Duck and Uncle Scrooge stories (occasionally with scripts by John Lusting), primarily for the northern European market. His son Noel Van Horn has worked extensively as a Disney cartoonist as well.