Buy it: Stella: Queen of the Snow
Stella: Queen of the Snow (By Marie Louise Gay) – Stella and her little brother Sam are excited to head outside and enjoy the first snowfall. But Sam has never seen snow before and has lots of questions. He asks Stella if they can eat snowflakes, where do snowmen sleep, what do snowmen eat and why is fog coming out of their mouths. Stella fields all his questions with sweet, childlike answers. She tells him that polar bears eat snowflakes for breakfast, snowmen sleep in snowbanks and eat snow peas and their words freeze on cold days, which makes a fog come out of their mouths. An adorable story about the joy and wonder of children on a snowy winter day.
The book recommendations included on this website are books that my daughter Ally, now age 5, and I have read and enjoyed together. I recommend the books that stand out to me as excellent children’s books for writing, illustrations, originality, story and characters. Ally and I hope you enjoy them too!
Buy it: Snowmen All Year
Snowmen All Year (By Caralyn Buehner) – My daughter and I loved the book Snowmen at Night, so we were so excited to get this companion book. In Snowmen All Year, a boy wishes that the snowman he built was magic so he could stay with him all year. The boy then imagines all the fun things that he and his snowman could do, like swimming, going to the zoo, watching the fireworks, flying a kite and going to the beach. The boy wishes that the snow he used to build his snowman was magic and wouldn’t melt away. And on the last page, you see he gets his wish. My daughter and I love the bright, colorful illustrations of the Snowmen books and fun, rhyming text.
The book recommendations included on this website are books that my daughter Ally, now age 5, and I have read and enjoyed together. I recommend the books that stand out to me as excellent children’s books for writing, illustrations, originality, story and characters. Ally and I hope you enjoy them too!
Buy it: Snow Day
Snow Day (By Patricia Lakin) – This is a great book to get for beginning readers. It features simple beginning words, rhymes, repetition and a very fun story. Snow Day is about four friends – Sam, Pam, Will and Jill – who are excited to go out and play in the snow. They get bundled up and grab their sleds, but when they get to the hill they remember something – they’re supposed to be at school. So they run home quickly to fix the situation. Soon the reader discovers that these four friends are school principals. They each call in a snow day for their school and rush back out to sled together and enjoy the snow day.
The book recommendations included on this website are books that my daughter Ally, now age 5, and I have read and enjoyed together. I recommend the books that stand out to me as excellent children’s books for writing, illustrations, originality, story and characters. Ally and I hope you enjoy them too!
Buy it: Arthur and the Big Snow
Arthur and the Big Snow (By Marc Brown) – It’s a snow day from school and Arthur is excited to meet his friends at the sledding hill. But his parents point out that his little sister, D.W., can’t walk in deep snow and he’ll have to wait for the snowplow to clear the snow. Arthur plays with D.W. waiting hopefully for the snowplow to come by. But when it finally does, Arthur gets a phone call from his friends telling him that they already went sledding without him. Arthur is sad until his family decides to go sledding together. They have the whole hill to themselves. The family realizes that good things are worth waiting for.
The book recommendations included on this website are books that my daughter Ally, now age 5, have read and enjoyed together. I recommend the books that stand out to me as excellent children’s books for writing, illustrations, originality, story and characters. Ally and I hope you enjoy them too!
Buy it: The Snowy Day
The Snowy Day (By Ezra Jack Keats) – This is a classic book about the simple pleasures a child can find playing in the snow. Peter wakes up one winter morning and sees all the new snow that has fallen during the night. He puts on his snowsuit and heads outside. He enjoys seeing the footprints he makes in the snow and dragging a stick behind him to make a new track. He climbs of snowbank, makes a snowman and snow angels. Before going inside, he puts a snowball in his pocket. But before going to bed, he looks for the snowball and it’s gone. The next morning, Peter heads out into the snow again with his friend.
The book recommendations included on this website are books that my daughter Ally, now age 5, have read and enjoyed together. I recommend the books that stand out to me as excellent children’s books for writing, illustrations, originality, story and characters. Ally and I hope you enjoy them too!
Buy it: Snow
Snow (By Roy Mc Kie and P.D. Eastman) – This is a simple rhyming story about the joy of a snowy day. Two children and their dog have a fun day in the snow, throwing snowballs, catching snowflakes on their tongue, sledding, skiing and making a snow fort. Then they make a huge snowman, but the sun comes out and their snowman begins to melt. They realize that all the snow will soon be gone. So they each scoop up some snow and run to put it in the freezer to save it for another day. The simple words used in the story would make it a great book for an early reader.
The book recommendations included on this website are books that my daughter Ally, now age 5, have read and enjoyed together. I recommend the books that stand out to me as excellent children’s books for writing, illustrations, originality, story and characters. Ally and I hope you enjoy them too!
Buy it: Mama, Will it Snow Tonight?
Mama, Will it Snow Tonight? (By Nancy White Carlson) – This is a very simple story of a little girl, rabbit and fox each asking their mothers if it will snow that night. All of their mothers look up at the sky and say that it will not snow. As days go by, the little girl and the animals continue to ask when it will snow. Then one night each of the mothers looks up at the sky and says that it will snow that night. And those mothers were right.
The book recommendations included on this website are books that my daughter Ally, now age 5, have read and enjoyed together. I recommend the books that stand out to me as excellent children’s books for writing, illustrations, originality, story and characters. Ally and I hope you enjoy them too!
Buy it: Where is Home, Little Pip?
Where is Home, Little Pip? (By Karma Wilson and Jane Chapman) – A baby penguin named Pip is warned by her parents not to wander too far away. But one day Pip chases a floating feather over the ice and snow and when she catches it, she turns around and realizes she is lost. Pip asks a whale, a Kelp Gull and sled dogs “Where is home?,” but their homes are different from hers. Finally Pip stops wandering and begins to sing. Her parents hear her singing and find her. Pip has found out that she is “home” whenever she is with her family.
The book recommendations included on this website are books that my daughter Ally, now age 5, have read and enjoyed together. I recommend the books that stand out to me as excellent children’s books for writing, illustrations, originality, story and characters. Ally and I hope you enjoy them too!
Buy it: Owl Moon
Owl Moon (By Jane Yolen) – This is the story of a little girl who goes out with her Pa one cold winter night looking for owls. As they walk through the snow, she realizes she needs to be quiet, brave and keep herself warm if she wants to find an owl. Her Pa stops now and then to give an owl call and finally they hear an owl hooting back to them. Then the owl lands on a branch right above their heads and stares down at them before spreading its wings and soaring away. The little girl is amazed at seeing the owl and as she walks home with her Pa, she realizes that all you need to find an owl is hope.
The book recommendations included on this website are books that my daughter Ally, now age 5, have read and enjoyed together. I recommend the books that stand out to me as excellent children’s books for writing, illustrations, originality, story and characters. Ally and I hope you enjoy them too!
Buy it: Snowmen at Night
Snowmen at Night (By Caralyn Buehner) – This is an adorable book for children who ever wonder why their snowmen sometimes look different in the morning. In this book, a boy builds a snowman and notices that the next day his hat had slipped and his arms had drooped. He begins to wonder what snowmen do at night. He imagines that they all meet in the park to play games, ice skate and go sledding. So of course, after all the fun and games, all the snowmen are crooked and falling apart the next day.
The book recommendations included on this website are books that my daughter Ally, now age 5, have read and enjoyed together. I recommend the books that stand out to me as excellent children’s books for writing, illustrations, originality, story and characters. Ally and I hope you enjoy them too!
