![]() ![]() Snow isn’t just “snow,” it is “sparkling specks of white” a “downy blanket” a “milky-white bowl” “vanilla ice cream” “diamonds on branches.” This aspect of the book offers opportunities for discussions about language and metaphor. Older readers will find themselves entranced by the care and beauty in Pendziwol’s poetic narration, while those at the younger end of the scale will walk away with an expanded vocabulary. Pendziwol draws inspiration from the landscape and geography of Northern Ontario, and her affection for this region shows clearly in her writing. This is the nostalgic season of yesteryear. Animals awaken, snow swirls, and winds whisper. Pendziwol and illustrator Isabelle Arsenault.Īs a young child sleeps snugly inside the comfort of a warm farmhouse, the magic of a winter night takes hold outside. A parent’s vision of a wintry Northern idyll leaps beautifully to life in this collaboration by author Jean E. ![]()
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