Who Likes the Snow?

Snow — it crunches when we walk on it, floats down like feathers onto our faces and makes our sleds zoom. But what is snow? And how does it transform the world around us? With a wonderful sense of movement and color, this unique book in the Exploring the Elements series invites children to explore their world with delight and curiosity. Young readers will open the flaps to find the science of snow and related topics clearly explained. Inside, they will discover why snow is white, what snowflakes look like up close, how snow makes the night brighter and much more.

Learn all about snow in this delightful book for curious young learners from the Exploring the Elements series.

Children's Literature

In this book, each pages presents a different reason why someone likes the snow. Then, in a lift-the-flap style, readers can learn why the snow does certain things. For example, "I like the snow because I can make snow angels. I wonder why I don't sink deep into the snow when I lie on it." Then the reader "lifts-the-flap" to learn why a body sinks when standing on snow, but why when making snow angels your body would only sink a little. The text is simple enough to share as a read aloud with younger readers. However, the lift-the-flap style will thrill them—but they will get lost with the long explanations found underneath. Older readers might enjoy thinking about the questions and learning the answers, but might think the story too simple. Classes undertaking discovery units would find this method of questioning and discovery helpful in learning how to ask questions (and in actually learning about snow). The smaller size will also be helpful for elementary students who want to hold the book and learn for themselves. Part of the "Exploring the Elements" series.

Award-winning author and teacher Etta Kaner enjoys writing nonfiction for both children and adults. Her books include Animals Migrating, Animal Talk , Animal Groups and other titles in the Animal Behavior series, as well as four titles in the Kids Can Read series. She is also author of the Exploring the Elements and Have You Ever Seen series. She lives in Toronto.

Marie Lafrance has been a more than full-time illustrator for most of her life, drawing pictures for magazines, newspapers, posters, billboards, boxes of jelly powder, board games, and the likes. She also illustrated tons of educational books, and eventually segued into what constitutes now the backdrop of her life, picture books. She lives in Montreal, Quebec with her husband and three inspirational tools, daughter Béatrice, dog Lélé and cat Melou.