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In honor of the snow and cold temperature, this week's Throwback Thursday is dedicated to the classic by Ezra Jack Keats, The Snowy Day. In the story Peter wakes up to every child's dream, the ground is covered in deep, cold snow. He does not waste anytime, eats his breakfast, gets dressed and heads outside to play. Peter explores the different ways to make tracks in the snow. He walks with his feet pointed in, he drags his feet and he finds a stick to make a track with. Peter continues to play in the snow. He sees the big boys having a snowball fight, he makes a snowman and a snow angel. The very last thing he does is make a snowball to put in his pocket to save for tomorrow. That night when he goes to check on his snowball and it had melted. But it doesn't matter because when he wakes up the next morning the snow is still there and new snow is falling.
Ezra Jack Keats does a great job of painting a picture of every child's dream snow day. There is not a single snow day activity that he missed, except for maybe the hot chocolate. He was even able to capture the sounds of a snow day using words like, crunch crunch crunch, s-l-o-w-l-y, and plop. I can't think of a better book to share on a snowy day like today.
So bundle up and get outside to play because we all know in a couple of months we will be wishing for cooler temps.
Happy Reading!
Laura
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