

This award winner is worth adding to your collection. This book really feels like magic and follows a girl and her father one winter night. It shows a lot of what happens during hibernation, so it is very educational. I love how this book teaches so much about nature during winter.

It really brings to life the wonder and magic of a snowfall. This shows us the changes that come from a snowfall. White Snow, Bright Snow by Alvin Tresselt This one is a great penguin book that teaches the value of differences. We love having penguin books in our winter book collection–so much so that we could have just a penguin book post. This book has beautiful illustrations and follows a boy through the city after a big snow. This is another classic, award-winning book to add to your collection. This book takes you through the fun that is to be had on a snow day. Snow Day! by Patricia LakinĮveryone dreams of having a snow day and a day off of school. It takes you through an adventure of what those snowmen do at night while you are sleeping. This is one of our very favorite winter books. It is good to own some wordless picture books. It is a wordless book, which has great value for children.

This award-winning book teaches us that great things can come out of small things. This is a rhyming book that is both funny and sweet. This is a great picture book for the animal lovers out there. Winter Picture Books Worth Owning Ladybug Girl and the Big Snow by Jacky DavisĪs I mentioned, this really represents owning a winter picture book that stars your child’s favorite character. Over and Under the Snow by Kate Messner.White Snow, Bright Snow by Alvin Tresselt.Ladybug Girl and the Big Snow by Jacky Davis.Roger Duvoisin’s pictures in soft blue half-tones with brilliant splashes of yellow and red emphasize the happiness and humor as well as the poetic quality of the text.įirst published in 1947, this classic picture book won the 1948 Caldecott Medal and was the first of eighteen picture book collaborations by Alvin Tresselt and Roger Duvoisin. But the children laughed and danced, and caught the lacy snowflakes on their tongues.Īll the wonder and delight a child feels in a snowfall is caught in the pages of this book-the frost ferns on the windowsill, the snowman in the yard and the mystery and magic of a new white world. When the first flakes fell from the grey sky, the postman and the farmer and the policeman and his wife scurried about doing all the practical things grown-ups do when a snowstorm comes. The classic Caldecott Medal–winning picture book about a neighborhood transformed by a delightful snowfall, from the legendary picture book duo Alvin Tresselt and Roger Duvoisin.
