Stories of Winter

           

 

 

           

            PRESCHOOLERS

 

            White Snow, Bright Snow

            Alvin Tresselt

            Captures the wonders of the first snow, with a wonderful, childlike whimsy.

 

 

            The Snowy Day

            Ezra Jack Keats

            An inner-city child has a great day in the snow.

 

            Snowman

            Raymond Briggs

            A snowman comes to life in this wordless book, illustrated like a whimsical comic strip.

 

            Snowmen at Night

            Caralyn Buehner

            Imagination-feeding illustrations portray what snowmen do while we're all asleep.

 

 

            Frederick

            Leo Lionni

            The other mice and small animals are gathering food for winter. But what's Frederick storing up?

 

            The Mitten

            Jan Brett

            A little boy loses the mitten his grandmother made for him, but it becomes a shelter for animals.

 

            Red Fox Running

            Eve Bunting

            Illustrations by Wendell Minor

            A red fox searches for food in the winter landscape.

 

 

           

            AGES 4-8

 

            The Snow Queen

            Hans Christian Andersen

            This classic story of good vs. evil has its chilling moments, but a warm and happy ending.

 

            The Mitten Tree

            Candace Christiansen

            A lonely lady lives near the schoolbus stop, and notices that one child is missing a mitten. A mystery leads to a magical game and fun for all.

 

            The Log Cabin Quilt

            Ellen Howard

            Children in a log cabin in the dead of winter in Michigan learn to survive and stay warm with simple quilt squares.

 

            Nutik, the Wolf Pup

            Jean Craighead George

            (award-winning author of My Side of the Mountain and many others)

            Illustrations based on the Barrow, Alaska, area by Ted Rand

            An Eskimo boy nurses a scrawny wolf puppy back to strength, but then faces separation anxiety.

 

            Arctic Son

            Also by Jean Craighead George

            Illustrations are beautiful paintings by Wendell Minor

            "All nature shares," an Eskimo hunter says. "And we are nature." This lovely book on the lifestyle of Eskimos in the Arctic Circle shares the beauty and serious struggle of that region of the world.

 

 

           

 

            AGES 9-13

           

            Hans Brinker and the Silver Skates

            Mary Elizabeth Mapes Dodge

            This classic tale is about two children in Holland, Hans and his sister Gretel, who want to win some costly silver skates in a skating race to help their father, who lost his job after a work accident.

 

            Snowflake Bentley

            Jacqueline Briggs Martin

            A biography on a wonderful Vermont man whose passion was photographing snowflakes.

 

            A Drop of Water

            Walter Wick

            Photography teaches about the properties of water, with special beauty in the snowflake section.

 

            The Call of the Wild

            Jack London

            A kidnapped dog turns into a wild wolf in this famous American epic about the Klondike Gold Rush of the late 1800s.

 

            White Fang

            Jack London

            The companion book to The Call of the Wild, this story is the reverse: a wild dog gets civilized in the Canadian Yukon.

 

           

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Learn more about these and many other neat books and activities for learning about winter here:

 

http://www.carolhurst.com/subjects/winter.html