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Burleigh, Robert

Winter Magic

32 pp. | Little/Ottaviano | September, 2024 | Trade ISBN 9780316560498 $18.99
(2) PS Illustrated by Wendell Minor. This picture book employs a first-person voice to enumerate the joys of winter. The rhyming text claims the identity of everything from snowmen to hot cocoa. "I'm a skater flying across the ice -- flash! / I'm a sled zooming down the hill -- dash!" Two of the season's holidays, Christmas and Hanukkah, are referenced in the text and/or the gouache, watercolor, and digital illustrations. The palette is appropriately cool, with pops of warmer colors, including bright red for mittens and the jacket of a boy making a snow angel (in perhaps a subtle nod to The Snowy Day) and glowing yellow for a cozy fire. The repeated refrain "I am Winter..." is completed at book's end with "I am Winter Magic!" An uplifting celebration.
Reviewer: Martha V. Parravano | Horn Book Magazine Issue: November, 2024

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