- Hardcover: 32 pages
- Publisher: Clarion Books; None edition (Aug 24 1998)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0395715318
- ISBN-13: 978-0395715314
- Product Dimensions: 18.5 x 19.2 x 0.9 cm
- Shipping Weight: 209 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #407,660 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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From School Library Journal
PreSchool-A short rhyming text captures a little girl's delight as she romps with her dog in a wintry landscape. The heavily bundled youngster counts, touches, and tastes the snowflakes as they fall around her. Linda Brennan's Flannel Kisses and Lezlie Evans's Snow Dance (1997, both Houghton) both welcome winter in rhyme; their longer texts and larger formats lend themselves better to group sharing than Millions of Snowflakes. However, Siddals's book is perfect for small hands, and Sayles's evocative illustrations in pastels create winter surroundings made for playful exploration.
Kathy Piehl, Mankato State University, MN
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Kathy Piehl, Mankato State University, MN
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Booklist
As in Tell Me a Season (1997), Siddals has written a book for preschoolers with minimal, but descriptive text--a kind of playful poem about the natural world. This one, which rhymes, is about anticipating a snowfall, and all the great things a child can do in the snow, such as catching snowflakes and making snow angels. Sayles uses a cool palette of pinks, blues, and lavenders. Her pastel paintings begin small, floating in white space ("one little snowflake falls on my nose"), but the pictures grow with each spread as the snow fall becomes heavier--" millions of snowflakes in my hair" --until they finally fill the page. It's as if she zoomed in on one snowflake and then pulled back, expanding the field of view to reveal the complete scene of a little girl frolicking with her dog. This is a book, like Uri Shulevitz's, Snow (1998) or Ulli Steltzer's black-and-white photo essay Building an Igloo (1995), that will get an enthusiastic reaction from active young children. Kathy Broderick
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Wonderful Pictures, Beautiful Words,
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This review is from: Millions of Snowflakes (Hardcover)
Mary McKenna Siddals has captured the beauty and joy of a young child's playful interaction with snowflakes. This is a book to read aloud with a baby on your lap. These evocative rhymes are perfectly complimented by Elizabeth Sayles' lovely pastel illustrations of the uninhibited excitement of a child playing in the snow. Millions of Snowflakes is a book that begs to be read again and again. This book also makes use of the numbers 1-5 and may help toddlers learn these numbers. This however is just a bonus to it's value as a great read-aloud book for very young children. I LOVED IT!
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Wonderful Pictures, Beautiful Words,
By Dianne Soares (Northern California) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Millions of Snowflakes (Hardcover)
Mary McKenna Siddals has captured the beauty and joy of a young child's playful interaction with snowflakes. This is a book to read aloud with a baby or toddler on your lap. These evocative rhymes perfectly compliment Elizabeth Sayles lovely pastel illustrations of the uninhibited joy of a child in the snow. Millions of Snowflakes is a book that begs to be read again and again. It's a counting book that teaches the numbers 1-5. This however is just an additional bonus to it's value as a great read-aloud book for very young children.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Wonderful pictures, Beautiful Words,
By Dianne Soares (Northern California) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Millions of Snowflakes (Hardcover)
Mary McKenna Siddals has captured the beauty and joy of a young child's playful interaction with snowflakes. This is a book to read aloud with a baby or toddler on your lap. These evocative rhymes perfectly compliment Elizabeth Sayles lovely pastel illustrations of the uninhibited joy of a child in the snow. Millions of Snowflakes is a book that begs to be read again and again.It's a counting book that uses the numbers 1-5 to help young children learn to count. This however is just an additional bonus to it's value as a great read-aloud picture book for very young children.
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