So Much Snow
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- £2.99
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- £2.99
Publisher Description
A beautifully illustrated, rollicking read-aloud about forest animals who are caught—literally up to their ears and antlers—in a snowstorm.
On Monday, it starts to snow.
Silent swirling.
How high will it go?
Follow seven forest creatures, from a tiny mouse to a giant moose, as they hunker down in a snowstorm. As the week progresses, the snow piles up and up--even past Moose's antlers!
On Sunday, the sun starts to melt the snow, and it seems that, as the next week passes and it grows sunnier, spring has finally sprung. But wait...is that more snow?! This cumulative picture book is at once beautiful and lyrical and playful and joyful, with charming illustrations by a highly acclaimed illustrator.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In this seasonal day-by-day telling, sprightly rhymes chronicle two wintry weeks in which a snowstorm blankets a forest and then recedes. On Monday, Mouse spots the first flakes ("silent swirling"), and Rabbit paws at "flakes floating" on Tuesday. As each daybreak brings more snow, another animal (Fox, Wolf, Deer, Bear, and Moose) encounters the bluster, while an accompanying refrain wonders: "How high will it go?" By Sunday, only a single antler peeks from a mound of white, and then the story reels backward as each animal in turn emerges from the retreating accumulation ("On Monday, the sun starts to show./ Mountains melting./ Look, it's Moose./ Hello!") and toward, perhaps, springlike temperatures. Jacoby combines watercolors, pastels, and digital techniques for a soft and dreamy effect; alongside Schroeder's effervescent prose, the book presents an atmospheric account of the vagaries of the natural world. Ages 3–7.
