Papa growls and grumbles snow.
Doesn't he remember snow
from when he was a kid?
We will help him shovel snow.
Why is this such heavy snow?
Almost never-ending ... "
Speaking of books about winter, as I did yesterday, this one looks at the great variety in types of snow, from its first appearance to its last hurrah each year. Ellen Yoemans knows snow, as do her siblings (at least, that is what her dedication states). Here she opens readers eyes to how snow looks, feels, and impacts daily life.
"Some snow is First Snow.
We've waited for so long snow.
Is it really snow snow,
or only heavy rain."
As winter sets in and stays, she describes for young listeners the joys found in the season. From Sleet Snow, to Fluff Snow, to Angel Snow, to Snowball Snow ... and so on. For those of us who live in wintery places, just hearing those descriptive words will conjure up images and memories - and certainly stories of forts, storms, trudging through it, getting stuck in it, tobogganing and shoveling, shoveling, shoveling!
"Soon, soon, all gone snow.
We've waited for so long snow.
Please, please, no more snow ...
our bikes are whispering."
All who share it will be captivated by Andrea Offerman's dazzling and oh, so accurate artwork. It elegantly captures the meaning in the text and the feelings of the many neighborhood children as they experience every sort of snow described by the author.
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