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32 pp.
| Greenwillow |
November, 2012 |
TradeISBN 978-0-06-201580-8$16.99
(4)
K-3
An omniscient narrator describes how children spend one snowy day: "Sasha and Max showered Oscar / with a wild flurry of snowballs, / while Willa climbed to the top of a big mountain," etc. Alas, because this hymn to winter is plotless, the gorgeous cut-paper collages don't add up to more than the sum of their picturesque parts.