Winter

Children's Literature - Glen Mayers

Hirschi offers an excellent introduction to the spring season. He features weasels and swans plus all of the glorious flowers that cover the landscape as the snows melt and the sun chases winter away. The beautiful color photographs tell their own story, showing how animals, and their ecosystems, change with the seasons (weasels change from winter white to brown). The large print and brief text make this book easy for the young readers to read and understand. Winter is and equally delightful companion book. 1996 (orig.

Children's Literature - Beverly Kobrin

The artistry of Mr. Hirschi's spare prose and Mr. Mangelsen's photography makes this collaboration an aesthetic delight for browsers of all ages. The focus here is on the animals and snowcovered landscapes. The other seasons are represented in Fall, Spring, and Summer by the same team. 1996 (orig.

School Library Journal

PreS-Gr 3-- Beautiful full-color photographs record the changes that occur in the natural world with each season. Hirschi's spare poetic prose is clear and unforced throughout. The titles have parallel sequences, both photographic and textual, highlighting what is unique to each season by placing many of the same animals and landscapes in both books. An attractive design, large typeface, decorative initials, and just a few lines per page all add to the books' appeal. Their texts seamlessly bind together the sharp photos in a meaningful way; one-page afterwords further amplify the texts. Mangelsen's ``knee high'' approach with the lens compliments young children, whose world is much lower to the ground than an adult's. --Gloria Amann, New York Public Library