Baby, It's Cold Outside...



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"When I was five, I had a really bad ear infection and I had been home in bed for a week and I was very sad. So I wished really hard that something wonderful would happen to me, and I woke up the next morning and it had snowed. And I was sure that some fairy godmother had done it just for me. It was my little present." ~ Lorelai Gilmore Gilmore Girls

 

Feeling that winter chill? I know we are, no school today and tons of snow. Why not curl up on the couch or your favorite reading chair, get a deliciously warm cup of cocoa/coffee/tea/Bailey's and read a good book!? Good stories (poems, plays, books and songs) I found with the word "snow" in the title (either I thought they sounded good or heard they were good)...if I know it personally, then the title has a *. Hoorah for Snow Days!

Smilla’s Sense of Snow   Peter Hoeg *

“The Snows of Kilimanjario”    Ernest Hemingway *

Snow Flower and Secret Fan   Lisa See

Snow Falling on Cedars   David Guterson *

The Snow Leopard   Peter Matthiessen

“Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening”   Robert Frost *

Snow Crash   Neal Stephenson

The Snowman   Raymond Briggs

The Snowy Day   Ezra Jack Keats

A Breath of Snow and Ashes   Diana Gabaldon

Snow   Orhan Pamuk

Snow Country   Yasunari Kawabata

The Snow Queen   Hans Christian Andersen *

Snow Angels   James Thompson
Snow Naomi Shihab Nye *

Snow Melts in Spring   Deborah Vogts

Snow White   The Brothers Grimm *
Snow Queen Joan D. Vinge

The Story of Snow: The Science of Winter’s Wonder   Mark Cassino

Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy   Carlos Eire

Snow in August   Peter Hamill

Snowflakes: A Pop Up Book   Jennifer Preston  Chushcoff *

Looks like I've got a lot of reading to do!!!       

Cocoa and a winter song playlist, enjoy!