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Grandmother Winter
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Grandmother Winter Hardcover - 1999

by Root, Phyllis, Harold Ober Associates Inc

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  • Title Grandmother Winter
  • Author Root, Phyllis, Harold Ober Associates Inc
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 32
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Orlando, Florida, U.S.A.
  • Date 1999-09-27
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Bookseller's Inventory # BOS-M-05a-01377
  • ISBN 9780395883990 / 0395883997
  • Weight 0.74 lbs (0.34 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.85 x 9.09 x 0.37 in (22.48 x 23.09 x 0.94 cm)
  • Ages 04 to 07 years
  • Grade levels P - 2
  • Library of Congress subjects Animals, Snow
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 98050515
  • Dewey Decimal Code E

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Summary

All through the spring, summer and fall, Grandmother Winter tends her geese and gathers their feathers. Why? To bring snowfall, of course-snowfall as soft as feathers and bright as a winter moon. With a poetic text and distinctive scratchboard illustrations, this book reveals that there is indeed magic and charm in our coldest season. To the woodland and all of its creatures-from round mice curling up and earthworms tunneling down to black bears burrowing and children dreaming of snow angels and sleds-the arrival of winter is, quite simply, a gift.

Media reviews

"The text's quiet rhythms find perfect resonance in the crisp, idyllic colored scratchboard country scenes. It's a strong picture book debut for Krommes." Kirkus Reviews

Grandmother Winter keeps snow-white geese. During the spring and summer, she collects the feathers released by their flapping wings; come autumn, she stitches the feathers into a lovely white quilt. When she shakes it, snowflakes fall cold from the sky, signaling the beginning of winter. Once the animals (and children) have made ready-snakes coiled in old woodchuck holes, hares in their coats of white, chickadees fluffed up against the cold-Grandmother herself, surrounded by her drowsy geese, snuggles under the quilt to sleep until spring. Root's cadenced text, lyrical and sweet, is nicely matched by Beth Krommes's debut illustrations. Her handsome stylized art, rendered in scratchboard and watercolor, depicts round, motherly forms embellished with figures referring to snow-six-pointed flakes, patterns like frost on a window, the flowing curves of a drift. The many creatures preparing for winter -- bats, worms, frogs, fish, bears, and so on -- are carefully observed as well as decorative. Horn Book

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