Nana's Book Library

Age: 0+

Particulars (Out of 5):  

• Happy little song included in the book *****
• Kids having fun playing outside and decorating inside *****
• Zero screens ***** 
• Celebrating winter holidays including Christmas and Valentine’s Day  *****
• Positive role models *****
• Inappropriate language:  None.
• Sexual references:  None.  

Reminder:  Nana’s Books are rated G.  Anyone could read them, or listen to them being read aloud or talked about.

I am quite fond of Lois Lenski.  She wrote books for younger and older kids, such as this one, and illustrated numerous books – her own and some by other authors, including the first four Betsy-Tacy-Tib books by Maud Hart Lovelace, one of my top favorite series when I was a kid.   

This is a good read-aloud, because it’s a tale told in catchy rhymed couplets:  “I like winter, I like snow.  I like icy winds that blow.  I like snowflakes, oh so light, Making all the ground so white.”

A young girl and her older brother have winter fun: sledding, making a snowman, snowball fights, skating on the frozen pond.  Then oh, no!  “My feet get cold, my poor hands freeze, I’m catching cold, I shiver and sneeze – (Ker-chooo!)   

Fear not: after some TLC and chicken soup, with the dog curled up by her bed, the little girl is back in action, because there’s more snow, and Christmas is coming, with lights, decorations, a sweet Nativity scene, and all the family coming on Christmas Day to share a meal and sing carols around the piano.  

“I like winter, long it stays, Long the nights and short the days.”  And before you know it, here comes Valentine’s Day!

This sweet little book is available used on Amazon, eBay, Abebooks, and other used book sites, in hard cover and paperback.

©Janet Farrar WorthingtonNote:  I am an Amazon affiliate, so if you do click a link and buy a book, I will theoretically make a small amount of money, but I’m just starting this thing, so I don’t even know how that works.   Still, full disclosure, etc.