The book contains 16 short poems about winter and snow. Individually these poems talk about how December days are short, how the ground looks when it snows, and what changes lead up to snow. This book has lots of rhyming in it and there are also a lot of similes and metaphors. This book really helps the reader picture what it is like when it snows, even if the reader has not seen snow before.
I think I would use this book in my classroom. It would go very well with a unit about the different seasons and I think it also gets the reader excited for winter, or at least the idea of winter if they do not experience many winters where they live. I think it is an appropriate reading level for first or second-grade students and I also feel as though it would be a fun read-aloud just reading one or two poems a day as a transition into a seasons unit.
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