The Horn Book Guide

PRESCHOOL

Root, Phyllis

Grandmother Winter

32 pp. | Houghton | September, 1999 | Trade ISBN 0-395-88399-7 $$15.00

(2) PS Illustrated by Beth Krommes. Grandmother Winter keeps geese whose feathers she stitches into a lovely white quilt. When she shakes out the quilt, snowflakes fall from the sky. Once the animals (and children) have made ready for winter, Grandmother snuggles under the quilt to sleep until spring. Root's cadenced text, lyrical and sweet, is nicely matched by Krommes's handsome stylized art rendered in scratchboard and watercolor.

Reviewer: Joanna Rudge Long | Horn Book Magazine Issue: September, 1999