Snow. Where is it? Why isn’t it here yet? When is it coming? With last year’s epic snow accumulations still fresh on our minds, skiers everywhere are hoping to awaken the snow gods. The superstitious amongst us will try anything to summon the snow. We wash our cars. We sleep with our pajamas inside out. We throw ice cubes in the air. We lick spoons and put them under our pillow at bedtime.
Lately I’ve been experimenting with a new ritual of my own invention. I pulled out all of the books about snow – a surprisingly large number – from my daughters’ bookshelves and we’ve been reading one each night before bed. And although the heavens haven’t opened – yet – my girls have been drifting off to sleep with snowy-white dreams.
Here’s a list of 20 books about snow:
Snowmen at Night, by Caralyn Buehner, illustrated by Mark Buehner
First Snow in the Woods, by Carla Sams III & Jean Stoick
The Snowy Day: 50th Anniversary Edition, by Erza Jack Keats
The Snow Globe Family, by Jane O’Connor, illustrated by S.D. Schindler
Curious George in the Snow, by Margret & H.A. Rey’s
The Snow Tree, by Caroline Repchuk, illustrated by Josephine Martin
There was a Cold Lady who Swallowed some Snow, by Lucille Calandro & Jared Lee
Biscuit’s Snowy Day, by Alyssa Satin Capucilli, Pat Schories & Mary O’Keefe Young
The Big Snow, by Berta and Elmer Hada
White Snow Bright Snow, by Alvin Tresselt, illustrated by Roger Duvoisin
The Story of Snow, The Science of Winter’s Wonder, by Mark Cassino
Dream Snow, by Eric Carle,
Snow, by Cynthia Rylant, illustrated by Lauren Stringer
Snow, by Roy McKie & P.D. Eastman
Snowflake Bentley, by Jacqueline Briggs Martin & Mary Azarian
Snow, by Uri Shulevitz
The Three Snow Bears, by Jan Brett
Snowflakes: A Pop-Up Book, by Jennifer Preston Chuscoff & Yevgeniya Yeretskaya
Snowballs, by Lois Ehlert
The Story of the Snow Children, by Sibylle Von Olfers
