Books like Snow
By Uri Shulevitz
For the kid who still runs to the window every time flakes start to fall, this is the book that says their excitement was right all along. quiet, hopeful, and lightly magical, with a slow build from doubt to delight
When the first snowflakes fall, grown-ups like the postman, the farmer, and the policeman's wife hurry to prepare, while the children run outside to catch lacy snowflakes on their tongues.
A farm boy obsessed with snow teaches himself to photograph snowflakes under a microscope, spending decades proving that no two are ever alike.
A determined girl chases every trick her neighbors suggest to try to capture Brother Wind himself as her partner for the junior cakewalk jubilee, certain nothing else will do.
A Victorian artist named Waterhouse Hawkins sets out to show the world what dinosaurs looked like by building the first life-size dinosaur models, first in England, then in New York City.
A curious cat named Sneakers explores the seaside for the first time, meeting a mischievous crab, playful shrimp, and a shell that echoes with the sound of the ocean.
A girl who feels closer to horses than to people follows a wild herd across the plains, choosing their freedom over the life her village expects for her.
While the other field mice work all autumn gathering corn and nuts for winter, a quiet mouse gathers sun rays, colors, and words instead — and when the food runs low, his stories are what feed everyone.
As geese fly south, forest animals prepare for winter each in their own way — until wise owls spot a rainbow ring around the moon and warn that a big snow is coming.
A kitten spots the full moon and mistakes it for a bowl of milk, then sets off on a quest to reach it — a night that leaves her tired, wet, and hungry.
A year moves through spring, summer, autumn, and winter as each season is felt through its colors — red singing from treetops, blue dancing on summer lakes, green waiting quietly in winter trees.
A wide-eyed owl wakes up early and can't get back to sleep, so he explores the daytime forest for the first time, watching butterflies, wolf pups, and his very first rainbow.
On a school trip to the Empire State Building, a boy is whisked away by a mischievous cloud to the Cloud Dispatch Center for Sector 7, where he starts sketching wild new cloud shapes for bored clouds.
