Snow Music
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PreS-Gr. 2. With whispery, musical words and detailed, soft-focus images that
depict typical winter scenes, this gentle book gives children a sense of what
snow is. A dog, deer, children, and squirrels wander, leaving clear, curious
tracks in the new fallen white; the passing of traffic creates a symphony of
tires. The underlying structure of looking for the lost dog keeps the narrative
headed forward through the day, and all ends well. The author's invitation to
voice the "sounds" of falling snow and hum a favorite radio song need not be
offered twice, and gentle bits of humor offset some sentimentality, assuring
repeated read-alouds. Just right for sharing on a snowy day. Francisca
Goldsmith
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