Snow Scene
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- $11.99
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
A playful guessing game set in a snowy landscape, this gorgeously illustrated picture book offers a cozy look at a cold winter that slowly melts into a bright spring with only a handful of carefully chosen words
A close-up of tree trunks leads to the question "What are these?"
A page turn reveals: trees!
Look to the right—what are those?
Shadows of crows!
Follow the clues on each spread until the snow starts to melt and spring is revealed.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Readers move through and out of winter in a series of seamlessly connected acrylic paintings on canvas it's unclear whether Seeger actually painted the book as one long continuous scene, but it sure looks that way. Jackson's pithy rhymes create a kind of guessing game to accompany nearly every page turn. "What are these?" he asks, as readers are confronted with birch bark trunks at close range. "Trees." A hint of black can be seen at the right edge of the next spread: "And those?/ Shadows./ Of crows." Readers also discover children, the snowmen they build, and deer, but then, "Just seen?/ A hint of green." The book surges into spring and summer, before closing with "winter's hat," a snow-capped peak. A simultaneously playful and meditative riff on how interconnected and fleeting the seasons are. Ages 4 8. Illustrator's)
