Rhyming couplets accompanied by nature scenes encourage youngsters to admire what the outside world has to offer in the colder seasons. Perfectly pitched and paced, McCanna\u2019s elegant, well-chosen words would make this a pleasure to read aloud. \u201cCold is a feeling, \/ a quiver, a quake \/ that sinks to the bone till you shiver and shake.\u201d Though this isn\u2019t a bedtime tale, the text and illustrations have the same calming effect. The artwork is full of curves and swirls\u2014of light, water, snowmelt patterns, even bird wings and raccoon tails. A nicely rounded story arc carries readers from fall to snowy winter. First, author and illustrator introduce a family of deer in a meadow on \u201ca morning \/ dappled in dew.\u201d The following scenes, mostly double-page spreads, depict other animals in a variety of locations and times of day\u2014even on a desert at night. The last few scenes return to the meadow and woods of the earlier pages and show a human family enjoying the snow as the deer family from the first page grazes nearby. This quiet, dreamy narrative concludes with the backmatter, which explains not only cold, but also climate change. Enlarged snowflake patterns adorn the endpapers. One of the parents is light-skinned, while the other parent and the children are brown-skinned.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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