Toys Meet Snow
Being the Wintertime Adventures of a Curious Stuffed Buffalo, a Sensitive Plush Stingray, and a Book-loving Rubber Ball
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- $4.99
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Publisher Description
A stuffed buffalo, a plush stingray, and a plastic ball venture outdoors and discover snow for the very first time in this delightful wintry picture book.
Lumphy, StingRay, and Plastic—the toys from the beloved chapter books Toys Go Out, Toy Dance Party, and Toys Come Home—are back in a glorious full-color picture book, perfect for gift-giving this holiday season. Acclaimed author Emily Jenkins and Caldecott Medal–winning illustrator Paul Zelinsky have created a book destined to become a classic.
Children who have loved listening to the Toys trilogy, as well as those meeting the toys for the very first time, will be thrilled to see Lumphy, StingRay, and Plastic venture outdoors to play in the snow. Together the toys build a snowman, make snow angels, and, when day is done, head back inside their cozy house and wait for the return of the Little Girl.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
The buffalo, stingray, and rubber ball from the chapter book trilogy that began with Toys Go Out make their first appearance in a picture book, and they couldn't be more at home. As the toys watch snow fall from the house, ever-curious toy buffalo Lumphy asks why it snows. "Because the clouds are sad and happy at the same time," says StingRay ("She is more poetic than factual," Jenkins writes), while pragmatic Plastic, the red ball, explains that it is simply frozen rain: "I read about it in a book." The toys' personalities inquisitive, romantic, matter-of-fact seed the story with quiet humor as the toys venture outdoors (StingRay, who is "dry-clean only," slides into a plastic baggie first). Zelinsky's digitally created illustrations have a gauzy, painterly richness, and he divides several spreads into panels to show how the toys work together to open the front door (it takes "no small amount of effort...") or build a snowman. Just as the snowfall casts a spell over all three friends, this wonderfully understated story enchants from the first page. Ages 3 7.
