Is This . . . Winter?
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- $7.99
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- $7.99
Publisher Description
What’s with all the blinking lights? With her trademark visual humor and comic timing, Helen Yoon takes a look at some odd winter traditions. High five! It’s winter! For one spirited little puppy, winter means romping in the snow, birds to chase, fragrant evergreen trees, and joy, joy, joy! Then again, winter also means . . . oddly unfriendly deer? Millions of little lights? Contorting inflatable snowmen? Wait, what? If this is all winter too, then winter is kind of . . . weird! Helen Yoon’s fresh and hilarious take on the winter season—part of a quirky new series of picture books—is a blend of bumbling affection and slack-jawed wonder.
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Throughout this exuberant kickoff to the Is This...? series, Yoon portrays an amusing dog's-eye view of Christmas season novelties—yard ornaments. Pulling against a red leash, a small brown pooch in a yellow scarf bounds across a snowy landscape, greeting everything that has a face. "High five! It's winter!" the rambunctious pup gleefully announces to birds, a painted mailbox, and a squirrel. After a catastrophic collision with a snowperson ("Where'd you—go...?"), the pup encounters holiday yard decorations, much to its confusion. (Addressing a light-up Rudolph, the hound invites, "Would you like to sniff my butt?") Amid an extravaganza of candy-colored decor, a giant blow-up Santa emanates a "Ho Ho Ho" that sends the protagonist hiding. Employing mixed-media techniques and comic perspectives, Yoon presents the wide-eyed subject's boisterous personality with confident sketches that capture the small dog's outsize holiday energy. Ages 3–7.
