Snow Day!: A Winter Tale

by Joan Holub, Will Terry (Illustrator)

Overview

It is wintertime and the Ant Hill kids are enjoying a snow day! They count snowflakes, throw snowballs — and make snow ants! But most exciting of all, they plan to go sledding! How many ants can they fit on a sled? And just how fast will they go?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781416951353
Publisher:	Simon Spotlight
Publication date:	10/21/2008
Series:	Ant Hill Series
Edition description:	Repackage
Pages:	24
Product dimensions:	5.80(w) x 8.80(h) x 0.10(d)
Lexile:	AD50L (what's this?)
Age Range:	3 - 5 Years

About the Author

Joan Holub has authored and/or illustrated over 140 children’s books, including the Goddess Girls series, the Heroes in Training series, the New York Times bestselling picture book Mighty Dads (illustrated by James Dean), and Little Red Writing (illustrated by Melissa Sweet). She lives in North Carolina and is online at JoanHolub.com.

Will Terry grew up just outside the Beltway of Washington, D.C. He has illustrated books for Simon & Schuster; Scholastic; Random House; Holt, Rinehart and Winston; Harcourt; Houghton Mifflin; and Hooked on Phonics. He enjoys snowboarding, racquetball, mountain biking, backpacking, and camping with his wife and their three boys. They live in Coalinga, California.

Editorial Reviews

The text is really simple with most declaratory and very short sentences. "‘Snowflake,' said Jake. Snowball, said Paul."' The story builds as the ants with warm hats on their heads decide to take a ride on a very large sled. They all pile on and off they go. Then what a mess at the bottom of the hill. Is anyone discouraged? No they are not, so it looks like it is up the hill and then down again. A pre-level 1book in the "Ready-To-Read" series which helps children by using word repetition, familiar words and phrases, and simple sentences. The story is amusing, which is much to the credit of Holub who has created it using little more than fifty words, many of which are repeated; the equally amusing illustrations by Terry carry it right along. Reviewer: Marilyn Courtot

Children's Literature - Marilyn Courtot