![]() Children will like being in on the secret here and eagle-eye readers will relish finding hidden figures in the shadows, clouds and snowdrifts. Snowmen at Night reveals a wonderful wintertime secretwhen we are sleeping, the snowmen are out playing This exuberant, rhyming tale continues to delight young toddlers, as well as older readers, in a format that's just right for little hands. There might be a reason why your snowman doesn’t. Bringing the brisk snap of the season to the fore, his scenes feature a natural light show, depicting an inky night sky and fluffy snow that glistens beneath moonlight and (street) lamplight, and eventually, the gradual brightening of dawn. Caralyn Buehner's witty, imaginative verse offers many amusing details about the secret life of snowmen and where they go at night, while Mark Buehner's roly-poly snowmen are bursting with personality and charm. Jukie Davie reads a story about snowmenSNOWMEN AT NIGHT is the story of snowmen and what they do at night. The rhythm of the rhyming text sometimes matches the rollicking spirit of the snowmen's wintry pursuits, but occasionally stumbles: "Then the snowman games begin: They line up in their places,/ each one anxious for his turn in the snowman races." The glee comes through at its most infectious in Mark Buehner's oil-and-acrylic paintings of the merrymakers, who look so delighted in their revelry that readers won't be able to help smiling in response. Surely a full night of play-and a long glide back to their homes-must be the explanation. Soon the boy pictures all the neighborhood snowmen gathered in the park for "ice-cold cocoa," a snowball fight, a round of making snow angels and more. When a boy observes that the snowman he built the day before now looks droopy and disheveled, he imagines what happened to his snow creation during the night. Snowmen at Night is an excellent book Here it is set to music to help with increased engagement for children with special needs and Autism. Have you ever built a snowman and discovered the next day that his grin has gotten a little crooked, or his tree-branch arms have moved And youve wondered. ![]() ![]() Not since Frosty paraded through the village square have snowmen enjoyed such a slip-sliding good time as they do in the Buehners' ( Fanny's Dream) ![]()
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