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PreS-Gr 4 This picture book begins and ends with a whisper of snow. In between, a lost dog, a boy, a girl, a deer, a rabbit, and a squirrel cross paths as readers follow their tracks through the vast white of the pages. The tracks are both textual and pictorial as they create meandering word patterns and paint pictures of footprints in the snow. From the ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Perkins explores the sensations, and especially the sounds, associated with a gentle fall of snow. "Everyone whisper," she begins, setting the mood with a page patterned in quiet blues and dotted with a soft, repeated syllable—"peth peth peth"—like the flakes of snow that blanket the world while children and creatures alike nestle in their beds. There follows a day of exploration: a dog escapes; other animals leave tracks ("...Log In or Sign Up to Read More