For Kids
Let it Snow!
It's cold outside, so curl up and enjoy the beauty of winter from inside with these snowy books to read together or to read on your own!
Books to Read Together
Carl's Snowy Afternoon
By Alexandra Day
FSG, 2009 (Ages 4-8)
A Cold Winter's Good Knight
By Shelley Moore Thomas, illustrated by Jennifer Plecas
Dutton, 2008 (Ages 4-7)
Here Comes Jack Frost
By Kazuno Kohara
Roaring Brook, 2009 (Ages 3-6)
Hooray for Snow!
By Kazuo Iwamura
North-South Books, 2008 (Ages 3-7)
A Kitten Tale
By Eric Rohmann
Knopf, 2008 (Ages 3-6)
Mama, Will it Snow Tonight?
By Nancy White Carlstrom, illustrated by Paul Tong
Boyds Mills, 2009 (Ages 3-6)
Mine, All Mine!
By Claire Hawcock and Chiara Pasqualotto
Sterling, 2009 (Ages 3-7)
The Mitten
By Jim Aylesworth, illustrated by Barbara McClintock
Scholastic, 2009 (Ages 4-8)
Old Bear
By Kevin Henkes
Greenwillow, 2008 (Ages 4-8)
Red Sled
By Patricia Thoma, illustrated by Chris L Demarest
Boyds Mills, 2008 (Ages 3-6)
Snow
By Cynthia Rylant, illustrated by Lauren Stringer
Harcourt, 2008 (Ages 3-7)
Snow
By Uri Shulevitz
FSG, 1998 (Ages 2-6)
Snow
By Manya Stojic
Knopf, 2002 (Ages 3-6)
The Snow Day
By Komako Sakai
Arthur A Levine, 2009 (Ages 4-7)
Snow is My Favorite and My Best
By Lauren Child
Dial, 2006 (Ages 4-8)
Snow! Snow! Snow!
By Lee Harper
Simon & Schuster, 2009 (Ages 3-7)
Snow trucking!
By Jon Scieszka, illustrated by David Gordon, Loren Long & David Shannon
Aladdin, 2008 (Ages 4-7)
The Snowy Day
By Ezra Jack Keats
Viking, 1962 (Ages 3-7)
Waiting for Winter
By Sebastian Meschenmoser
Kane Miller, 2009 (Ages 3-7)
Welcome Winter
By Jill Ackerman
Scholastic, 2008 (Ages 0-3)
Winter: An Alphabet Acrostic
By Steven Schnur, illustrated by Leslie Evans
Clarion, 2002 (Ages 4-8)
Winter Babies Wear Layers
By Michelle Sinclair Colman, illustrations by Nathalie Dion
Tricycle, 2007 (Ages 0-3)
Winter Trees
By Carole Gerber, illustrated by Leslie Evans
Charlesbridge, 2008 (Ages 4-7)
Books to Read on Your Own
Explore Winter!
By Maxine Anderson, illustrated by Alexis Frederick-Frost
Nomad, 2007 (Ages 7-10)
Houndsley and Catina and the Quiet Time
By James Howe, illustrated by Marie-Louise Gay
Candlewick, 2008 (Ages 5-8)
Poppleton in Winter
By Cynthia Rylant, illustrated by Mark Teague
Scholastic, 2001 (Ages 3-7)
Prairie Winter
By Bonnie Geisert
Houghton Mifflin, 2009 (Ages 8-12)
The Snow Queen
By Hans Christian Andersen, retold by Naomi Lewis, illustrated
Candlewick, 2007 (Ages 7-11)
Snow Wonder
By Charles Ghigna, illustrated by Julia Woolf
Random House, 2008 (Ages 5-8)
The Story of Snow: The Science of Winter’s Wonder
By Mark Cassino
Chronicle, 2009. (Ages 4-6)