Snow Day!: A Winter Tale

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?

Children's Literature

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

Joan Holub is the award-winning author of more than eighty

books for children. She lives in Seattle, Washington.

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.