There is something wonderful about waking up in the early hours of the morning to discover that snow has fallen in the night. Everything is quiet, muffled by the snowfall, and there is a feeling of excitement that is intoxicating to the spirit. In today's picture book a little child ventures out into the night after the first snowfall and she has a magical adventure in the woods.
First Snow
First Snow
Bomi Park
Picture Book
For ages 4 to 6
Chronicle Books, 2016, 978-1-4521-5472-5
It is nighttime and a little child, snuggled up in bed
with her teddy bear, hears a noise. Something is gently tapping on her bedroom
window. She crawls out from under the covers to take a look and sees that it is
snowing. Quickly she puts on her snow clothes and goes outside. One of the
puppies is awake too and it leaves the warmth of the dog house to see the
little girl. It watches as the little girl creates a ball of snow and then it
follows as she rolls it across the ground, out of the garden, past the houses,
and “Beneath the lights.”
Across the
fields the companions go, along the railroad tracks, and into the woods, where
animals watch their progress. The little girl’s ball of snow is quite big now
and rolling it along is hard work. Then, there in the dark woods, the little
girl sees a glowing gateway to somewhere else, and through it she goes rolling
her ball of snow.
In this
wonderful book a simple nocturnal adventure unfolds to become something
altogether bigger; something magical happens and we are transported to a wonderful
place to celebrate the joy of a first snowfall.
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