Book Genre: Realistic Fiction
Publishing Info: Puffin; 20 pages
Awards: Caldecott Medal
Summary: A boy living in the city awakes to new fallen snow. He is excited to go out and explore in the snow. He gets dressed and makes footprints in the snow, watches a snowball fight, makes an angel in the snow, makes tracks with a stick. He hits the a tree with a stick and snow falls on his head. He puts the snow in his pocket and heads home. He takes a warm bath and goes to get the snow out of his pocket only to find that it had melted!
Personal rating: ****Great! Awesome story for winter reading!
Reading level: 2.5
Interest level: K-3
Possible uses of the text:
Art: Give students blue construction paper and a piece of chalk. Students can make a snowy scene! Add black strips of construction paper so that it resembles a window.
Science: Discuss the seasons. Divide a paper into 4 sections and students illustrate each season.
Reading/Writing: Give students pictures from the story and have them put them in order according to the story and write a caption about each one.
Possible Problems: None
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