Snow Day Dance by Will Hubbell (published 2005) is not the most exciting story, but it captures the magic of a realistic snowy world. In the beginning, children watch the snow falling from their classroom in school, all secretly hoping that the snow will cause school to be canceled. Their teacher encourages them, saying that they should “wear their pajamas backwards” and do a special dance in order to get a snow day off of school. When the town is covered in snow the next morning, the children have fun playing the newly decorated world.
My son liked to find the snowman the children made, and he loved to see the fun the kids were having in the snow, since he too likes to play in the snow. (Note to self: get snow pants for myself!). I liked the illustrations: realistic and yet colorful paintings.
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.”
