Published: New York: Scholastic, 1994
40 pages
Target Audience: ages 7-11
Reading level: 5.9
Genre: Poetry
Themes: Winter
Synopsis: Journey through a frosty wonderland, where the beauty of winter and the music of poetry come together to evoke the magic of a season. The voices of great poets that span the centruies are included.
CHARACTER: NA
PLOT: NA
THEME: ***
LANGUAGE: ****
OVERALL RATING:***
This beautifully designed and illustrated picture book anthology of poetry celebrates winter itself, not the holidays that fall within the season. While much of the poetry was not originally written for children and some of it is excerpted from longer works, the clarity of concrete images and the sounds of the words make the verse accessible to young people, particularly when it is read aloud. The background of each double-page spread is the same country road, fields, and farm seen in a variety of weathers and times of day and night. A white box is centered on each page, and within these boxes appear the poems and illustrations related to individual poems.
