Caldecott Monday: The Big Snow
Aug. 22nd, 2016 05:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
osprey_archerThe 1949 Caldecott winner is Berta and Elmer Hader's The Big Snow, which I liked very much! It starts when the geese go honking south for the winter, which prompts all the other animals to ponder their own winter preparations, and culminates - of course - in the falling of the Big Snow. Lots of beautiful, peaceful nature illustrations; soft watercolors for the color pages and gentle stippled pencil sketches for the black and white ones.
I really like books about the changing seasons. This seems to be a genre that exists mostly for small children, presumably because it would be a bit difficult to hang an entire novel on the minutia of seasonal change, and it's very peaceful and comforting.
I think it would be interesting to read books in this genre that don't follow the spring-summer-fall-winter pattern, though. Something that follows the seasons in Florida or somewhere like that. Is that something that exists?
I really like books about the changing seasons. This seems to be a genre that exists mostly for small children, presumably because it would be a bit difficult to hang an entire novel on the minutia of seasonal change, and it's very peaceful and comforting.
I think it would be interesting to read books in this genre that don't follow the spring-summer-fall-winter pattern, though. Something that follows the seasons in Florida or somewhere like that. Is that something that exists?
