Review Quotes Diverting and beautifully realized.-The Los Angeles Times Book Review Ms. Readers young and old will marvel at the innovation in this dazzling snow-filled tale and just might feel inspired to build their own unique snow creations. Ehlert creates a wintry world with her signature style by collaging vibrant cut paper and textured found objects, like buttons, fabric, and seeds, to illuminate the most wonderful time of the year. Book Synopsis Its time to build a snowman in this fresh and imaginative winter classic by Caldecott Honor-winning author-illustrator Lois Ehlert. (Oct.About the Book This seasonal classic is now in a board book edition that can inspire even the youngest snowman-builders.
A joyful and inventive book just brimming with its own ``good stuff.'' Ages 3-8. Even jacket space is not wasted-the flap has a recipe for popcorn balls, while the back cover features a selection of snowy newspaper forecasts. Factual information about snow is included as well as a spread featuring photos of 13 snow creations. Each member of the snow family receives a full spread, to be viewed vertically, and each is decorated with ``good stuff.'' Birds (and squirrels) can feast upon some of the adornments and bright textiles (a Bolivian hat, a Guatemalan purse) imaginatively intermingle with stones, twigs and such prosaic items as a luggage tag and a claim check.
Her faultless sense of design immediately engages the reader: tidy white circles dot the gray backgrounds of her collages cut-paper birds show off their hand-painted wings and an offscreen narrator exhibits a sackful of ``good stuff''-birdseed, peanuts, corn kernels, etc.-accumulated in anticipation of the ``perfect snowball day.'' Soon the narrator and invisible colleagues have constructed a whole family of snow people and their pets. Only an artist as gifted as Ehlert (Nuts to You!) could take so well-worn a topic as building a snowman and make it as fresh as-well, new-fallen snow.
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