![]() ![]() This pleasant story captures the experience of a small community's winter, told in evocative, almost poetic prose. As the story concludes, the weather warms and the children meet the first robin of Spring. While the adults man shovels, catch colds, and fall into snowbanks, the children build snowmen and snow forts and have a snowball fight. Each of the four grownups in the story attends to adult activities to prepare for the snow, but the children anticipate it gleefully, waiting for the magic of snow which means an instant holiday. This story opens with three poetic stanzas giving tribute to a snowfall, then proceeds into a story in which a 1940's small town experiences a snowfall. ![]() Alvin Tresselt has a gift for describing natural phenomena in a way that is easy for children to understand. ![]()
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