Synopses & Reviews
All through the spring, summer and fall, Grandmother Winter tends her geese and gathers their feathers. Why? To bring snowfall, of course-snowfall as soft as feathers and bright as a winter moon. With a poetic text and distinctive scratchboard illustrations, this book reveals that there is indeed magic and charm in our coldest season. To the woodland and all of its creatures-from round mice curling up and earthworms tunneling down to black bears burrowing and children dreaming of snow angels and sleds-the arrival of winter is, quite simply, a gift.
Synopsis
Grandmother Winter lives all alone with her snow-white flock of geese. All through the spring, summer, and fall, Grandmother Winter tends her geese and gathers their feathers. Why? To bring snowfall as soft as feathers and bright as a winter moon. To the woodland and all of its creatures, the arrival of winter is a gift.
About the Author
'Phyllis Root says this story was inspired by her childhood memories of Mother Holle, a character in German fairy tales. She lives in snowy Minneapolis, Minnesota.Beth Krommes said that she first fell in love with meadows and the outdoors on childhood trips to her grandmother\'s house, surrounded by meadows, on the side of Sugarloaf Mountain in Pennsylvania. She is the illustrator of Phyllis Root\'s Grandmother Winter and Lise Lunge-Larsen\'s The Hidden Folk. She lives in Peterborough, New Hampshire.'