Winter Friends - Hardcover

Quattlebaum, Mary

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0385746261 ISBN 13: 9780385746267

Publisher: Doubleday Books for Young Readers, 2005

Synopsis

A snowfall.
A lost mitten.
A chance meeting.
A winter day just right for new friendships and fun.
The weather outside may be frosty, but Mary Quattlebaum’s lively story in poems and Hiroe Nakata’s joyful illustrations celebrate the good times to be had by all. So curl up with Winter Friends and delight in the simple pleasure of the season!

About this title

About the Author:

Mary Quattlebaum is the author of many books for young readers, including the companion novels Jackson Jones and Mission Greentop and Jackson Jones and the Puddle of Thorns. She lives in Washington, D.C.
Hiroe Nakata has illustrated numerous picture books, including Got to Dance by M. C. Helldorfer. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

From Booklist:

*Starred Review* PreS-Gr. 2. The book's title is bland, but the poetry inside is invigorating, just like a crisp winter day. The poems follow one girl who awakens to see that "In violet slippers / and pink-striped robe, / dawn peeks at the world in its white nightclothes." The plow "crowds" the snow, paving the way for a mother-daughter excursion. Once outside, the girl spies something: "a cold hand / hides, / a numb thumb seeks / what I have spied." She grabs the mitten, and soon enough, the owner shows up. Other winter moments get their own poems: "Winter breath," is a "ghost horse, all wispy mane and misty tail." Then there's the squirrel unable to find the "fat nut tucked in the hidey hole," and hot chocolate whose steam is an invitation. Kids will especially like the concrete poem "Sledding," with words slipping down the side of page, mirroring the children "swooping" and "speeding" down the adjacent hill. Nakata mines all the frosty fun in his winsome watercolor illustrations, which are as varied in composition and effect as the poetry. A book that provides something to smile about with each new reading. Ilene Cooper
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About this edition

• Publisher: Doubleday Books for Young Readers
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0385746261
• ISBN 13: 9780385746267
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 32
• Illustrator: Nakata Hiroe