![]() ![]() Overall I’d recommend this book for a snow unit. It was fairly simple, but provided some good information such as how snow is beneficial to plants and animals but can also be bad if there is a blizzard. This snow book is written in a conversational manner with the reader, asking questions which the book then answers. While this wasn’t our favorite book it was a decent addition to the unit. Eventually the snow falls freely from the sky and covers the city in snow. With each snowflake that appears the young boy exclaims that it is snowing while the adults all insist it is nothing. The city was gray and one snowflake falls. As is typical of Jan Brett stories, the illustrations in this book are full of details that give the reader a lot to examine. This book is a twist on the classic Goldilocks story which my children enjoyed as they love the original story. It turns out the three polar bears live there. Highly recommended for a snow unit.Īn Inuit girl loses her sled dogs and wanders to an igloo. Susan Jeffers does a great job giving the reader a lot to look at and really showing the poem through images. They enjoyed the poem/story and loved looking at the illustrations. I LOVE this poem and had this book as a child so I was excited to read it to my girls. Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost, illustrated by Susan Jeffers This is a great book and a wonderful story, a welcome addition to our snow unit. This book is a bit serious in tone, but my 4 year old sat through the story and was interested in what was happening. Growing up in Vermont I learned all about Snowflake Bentley as a child. Snowflake Bentley by Jacqueline Briggs Martin Good lesson about working together to achieve a common goal. When two mice decide to work together they build the biggest snowman and win the town’s contest. Cute story with a decent lesson on patience. Eventually the friends learn to be patient and wait and the snow does appear. Badger’s animal friends try to help him get the snow to come, but it doesn’t. Hedgehog wisely advises badger to be patient and that it will come. This book has a very scientific feel to it, but it was a great addition and I felt like we learned a lot from it.īadger is waiting for it to snow and tries everything to get the snow to start. The pictures in this book were fantastic and my 4 year old loved looking at all the photographs of different snowflakes. This was a great book that did an awesome job explaining how snowflakes form. The Story of Snow: The Science of Winter’s Wonder by Mark Cassino with Jon Nelson, Ph.D. ![]() You can also find the animated movie adaptation of this book on Amazon Video for free if you have a prime account (link to movie here). It is a cute story and my girls both enjoyed it. The book follows him as he explores his neighborhood that is now covered in snow. It ends by showing how humans can help provide food for animals during the winter.Ī young boy wakes up to find a lot of snow has fallen overnight. It also talks about animals that do not get ready for winter at all (mice, deer, rabbits, and fox). It touches on animals that store food to last all winter (pika and squirrels). It also discusses hibernation of some bats and woodchucks. This book covers the migration of birds, butterflies, and some bats. Very simple words, but the images are well worth including this book to your reading list.Īnimals in Winter by Henrietta Bancroft & Richard Van GelderĪs winter approaches, animals begin to get ready for the cold weather. The beautiful photography used in this book to convey winter is excellent. A very sweet story with nice illustrations. This book uses descriptive poetic text to explore how the snow impacts us when it arrives at different times of day. This book is a great addition to any winter unit. The layout of this book is great with each illustration showing what is happening both above and below the snow covered ground. This book follows a young girl and her father as they ski through the forest discussing animal tracks and what is going on underneath the snow. If you are looking for some great activities to do during a snow unit, check out this post. Below are the books recommended for this topic, along with a quick review of each to help you decide if it would work for your children. The books we read covered a very wide range of snow related topics, from how animals live in the snow to fun stories about playing in the snow to how snowflakes are formed. With snow abundant this time of year it seems the perfect time for us to learn more about it through reading stories and doing snow related activities. Living in the Northeast it seems almost mandatory that we would do a unit on snow. ![]()
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