Winter Waits - Hardcover

Plourde, Lynn

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0689832680 ISBN 13: 9780689832680

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing, 2000

Synopsis

Winter sprints across the way. "Father, Father, come on, let's play." Father Time smiles and kisses his son. "Not now, I must work, my littlest one." So Winter waits for an hour or two, painting the grass with a frosty hue... While Winter waits for his father, he finds ways to amuse himself. Winter "whistens and glistens" the world in frost, "whizzles and whittles" ice sculptures, and "snizzes and snips" snowflakes. At last, Father Time turns his full attention to his son, and they "frisk and frolic away." Lynn Plourde, author of the best-selling picture book Wild Child, reunites with acclaimed illustrator Greg Couch to continue the story of Nature's family with this exquisite book that captures the joy of a father-son relationship.

About this title

About the Author

Lynn Plourde is the author of the acclaimed picture book Wild Child. She had been writing children's books for thirteen years before having her first one published, so she knows all about waiting. Plus, she lives in Maine with a 700-foot driveway to shovel, so she knows all about winter, too. She is also the author of Pigs in the Mud in the Middle of the Rud and Moose, of Course!

From Publishers Weekly

Plourde and Couch pick up where they left off with the autumnal Wild Child, this time featuring a boy who personifies winter. The fantasy is more complex and abstract than the previous title and may well puzzle more than challenge or entertain youngest readers. When small Winter in his Wee Willie Winkle hat wants his father's attention, Father Time answers, "Just a minute, big guy./ My work's not done." His father ignores him until Winter presents him with a spectacular snowflake, at which point Father Time, with a "tear in his eye," agrees to play. As he gives Winter a goodnight kiss, he acknowledges the lesson he's learned about making time for his son. Couch's frosty paintings are both dazzling and inventive. Wheels and clock parts surround Father Time's cubist moon face; stars and planets encircle his head like a halo. But the arresting images and sophisticated artwork may be as confusing to youngsters as the text. Unfortunately, Plourde's problematic story seems to suggest that the only surefire way a child can get his father's attention is to impress him. Despite the use of playful nonsense words that fill out the rhythm (father and son "wristle and wrestle" and they "rizzle and romp"), the book's message seems addressed more to workaholic fathers than to children. Ages 4-8.
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Edition details

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0689832680
• ISBN 13: 9780689832680
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 32
• Illustrator: Couch Greg