Twenty Snow Books for Kids

December 1, 2009 by Marcie Pickelsimer  
Filed under Books, Children, Entertainment



This afternoon the snow started softly falling upon our lawn. It was gentle and quiet and nothing really spectacular except that it was the first snow of the season.

Then, this evening, around four, it began to accumulate enough that AJ could make footprints in the white slush.

And, it was magical to see him enjoy something so beautiful, so fresh, so pure. I caught him in a joyous moment, relishing a snowflake on his tongue and it made me realize how precious those moments are and how magnificent it is to see him having those moments…ones I never thought he would have.

It made me think of my own childhood and the books I used to read, the ones that I have memories of. My father used to read to me as we sat on my bed next and occasionally looked out the window. We would watch the falling snow in the street lamp across the way. To me, it was heaven.

  1. Animals in Winter (Let’s-Read-and-Find-Out Science 1)
    by Henrietta Bancroft & Richard Van Gelder
  2. The Big Snow
    by Berta Hader, Elmer Hader
  3. The Day Daddy Stayed Home
    by Ethel & Leonard Kessler
  4. Dream Snow
    by Eric Carle
  5. The Jacket I Wear in the Snow
    by Shirley Neitzel
  6. Katy and the Big Snow (Vol 2)
    by Virginia Lee Burton
  7. The Mitten 20th Anniversary Edition
    by Jan Brett
  8. Snow Day
  9. The Snow Child (Easy-to-Read, Puffin)
    by Freya Littledale
  10. The Biggest Snowman Ever
  11. The Snowy Day
    by Ezra Jack Keats
  12. The First Snow
    by David Christiana
  13. The Winter Solstice by Ellen Jackson
  14. Snow Crazy by Tracy Gallup
  15. Stranger in the Woods by Carl R. Sams II and Jean Stoick
  16. Snowballs by Lois Ehlert
  17. Owl Moon by Jane Yolen
  18. Snowmen at Night by Caralyn Beuhner
  19. Snowflake Bentley (Caldecott Medal Book)
    by Jacqueline Briggs Martin (Caldecott Medal Book)
  20. Snow
    by Cynthia Rylant and Lauren Stringer

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