Snow by Uri Shulevitz (published 1998) is a magical snow day book. In the midst of a gray world, a little boy sees a snowflake. He calls out, “Snow!” but the adults in the town disbelieve him, apparently hoping he is wrong. By the end, the snow has covered the town and the boy is dancing with the imaginary but magical colorful cartoon creatures, like Mother Goose, who’ve emerged from the walls of the children’s bookshop.
I don’t know why I like this is so much fun, but I love the boy’s delight and the grouchy adult’s reactions. My son was the one who discovered that Mother Goose was joining the boy, and he pointed to the illustrations in delight. He also liked to see the snow go from one flake to two to three to many, and so forth.
Given the two feet of snow that fell on my community yesterday, I feel it’s appropriate to focus on some of the snowy day books my three-year-old son and I have enjoyed lately. He loves snow and especially snowmen, so I searched out some potential favorites even before this week’s storm hit. See more of our snowy day books from this week by clicking “previous review” or “next review.”
