Winter Woes - Hardcover

PreSchool-Grade 2–A boy leaps out of bed and bundles up from head to toe in preparation for a cold, snowy day. "But what if I put on/All of that stuff/And I get outside/And I'm not warm enough? I might get cold,/I might get wet./But that's not as bad/As my day could get...." The watercolor illustrations extend the text to create a story of a child engaging in various gut-wrenching and hilarious difficulties as he worries about the dangers he might encounter. His imagination leads him to run and fall, slip and slide, tumble over backwards, and get buried in snow. His nose runs, his boogers freeze, he trips and falls and rolls down a hill, off of a cliff and into the sky and right into space, rocketing back to Earth, where he lands in a lake, freezes, and must wait until spring to thaw. The boy then decides not to go outside but to sit and sip his hot chocolate by the fire, where it is warm and certainly safer, unless, "...a hot-chocolate marshmallow/Gets stuck up my nose...." A laugh-out-loud tale.–Rebecca Sheridan, Easttown Library & Information Center, Berwyn, PA
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