We’ve had a good start to winter here in Minnesota with a snowy Thanksgiving and blizzards of snow up on the glorious North Shore. It’s high time to get the hot chocolate steaming and snuggle up with stories celebrating this …
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six wintery stories celebrating cold weather!
Here in the Great North we’re looking forward to wearing our woolies, sipping our chai, and watching candlelight flicker in windows as December approaches. I love winter! What about you? Today’s books will warm your heart towards cold weather, even …
celebrate winter’s arrival with a flurry of frosty books
Winter arrives tomorrow, and I’m hoping it blows in with yardfuls of snow and nose-nipping cold!! Because I love winter! And here in Minneapolis we’ve had none if it yet. Even if you don’t share my enthusiasm for the season, you’ll …
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snow in the forecast…a flurry of five wintertime tales
Big Snow, written and illustrated by Jonathan Bean Ever since I heard Jonathan Bean was working on a snow story, I’ve been eagerly anticipating it. That’s fitting, because Anticipation permeates this ah-mazing new book I have fallen in love with. …
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fiction favorites…Twelve Kinds of Ice
Twelve Kinds of Ice, by Ellen Bryan Obed, illustrations by Barbara McClintock We sped to silver speeds at which lungs and legs, clouds and sun, wind and cold, raced together. Our blades spit out silver. Our lungs breathed out silver. …
