I Love Snow!
I love snow!
spinning, swirling, swooshing snow
crunch beneath my boots snow
tickling my tongue snow
I love snow!
This short poem uses rhythm and repetition to describe the fun activities a fresh snowfall permits. Too much snow can sometimes cause problems, and in time it turns to dirty gray slush. But in the end, nothing can diminish a child’s love of snow!
Named a Best Children’s Book of the Year by the Bank Street Center for Children’s Literature!
8.5″ x 8.5″ | 26 pages
Rosetta Press
$10.00
ISBN-13: 978-1514348475
A multicultural cast of children experience snow in New York City: the delight and wonder of the first flakes, sledding and snow angels, a blizzard, a day off from school, and, finally, melting puddles and slush to stomp. Elliott’s spare, sing-songy rhyming text is upbeat and engaging, and Wong’s colorful digital illustrations are bursting with appeal and emotion. This one is a wintry delight.
~ Amy Martin, School Library Journal
This is a fantastic book for young children on the joys of snow. There isn’t a door opening into a culture or a tradition, and race or gender is not an issue in this book. And yet it qualifies for a “multicultural” book because it alerts us to the void that it is trying to address – that mainstream books refuse to reflect the diversity children see around them. And that this is the highlight of the book is so incredibly wonderful! Author Zetta Elliot’s effort to push books like these into today’s literature pool for children definitely deserves an applause.
In a rhythmic, read-aloud friendly narration, the book describes all the ways kids enjoy snow – crunch beneath my boots snow, miss a day of school snow. It goes further and shows kids taking in even the slushy, gray, cold, and wet snow with no big fuss. In the end, they can’t wait for it snow again!
We see colorful spreads of children enjoying the snow, in not just a colorful setting and in multicolored clothes, but also in diverse skin colors, in a hijab, and in a wheelchair. And this is why I love this book – the simplicity and the honesty with which it presents the pleasures of a child’s everyday experience. I recommend this book for small children everywhere – at home, in libraries, and in classrooms, so they see themselves and their friends included in the stories they read.
~Meera Sriram, InCultureParent