Once Upon a Winter Day
- Subject
- Imagination & Play
- Age
- 3-5 years
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Pages
- 40
- Publisher
- Holiday House, Incorporated
- Size
- 21.3 cm Ă 26.2 cm
- ISBN
- 9780823452446
A boy learns that nature is full of stories to tell when he finds and follows a mouse's tracks in a wintery wood.
Milo wants a story, but his mom is too busy to entertain him. Instead, she encourages him to go out and play in the snow. At first, Milo is disappointed - he doesn't want to play outside, he wants a story.
But when he starts to follow a trail of mouse-prints, he discovers signs of activity all around, prompting him to ask, "What happened here?" Before long, he's using his imagination -- depicted in lush wordless spreads that capture the vividness of Milo's fantasies -- to fill in the gaps. By the time Milo comes home, he's the one with stories to tell.
A must have for the winter season, Liza Woodruff's Once Upon a Winter Day is a fun read-aloud that shares details about animal behavior from a child's perspective.
A Bank Street Best Book of the Year
Milo wants a story, but his mom is too busy to entertain him. Instead, she encourages him to go out and play in the snow. At first, Milo is disappointed - he doesn't want to play outside, he wants a story.
But when he starts to follow a trail of mouse-prints, he discovers signs of activity all around, prompting him to ask, "What happened here?" Before long, he's using his imagination -- depicted in lush wordless spreads that capture the vividness of Milo's fantasies -- to fill in the gaps. By the time Milo comes home, he's the one with stories to tell.
A must have for the winter season, Liza Woodruff's Once Upon a Winter Day is a fun read-aloud that shares details about animal behavior from a child's perspective.
A Bank Street Best Book of the Year
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What reviewers said
"When a childâs mother is too busy for stories, he follows some tracks in the snow and makes up his own. . . . Nature tells good stories if we only get outside and look around."
"Words and pictures work together to tell a taut and just-right-for-the-audience suspenseful tale. Mixed-media illustrations evoke the majesty of the wintry landscape but keep the focus on Milo'sâand the mouse'sâsmall journey. Young viewers will enjoy doing some noticing of their own: details such as a berry dropped by a cedar waxwing that the mouse brings back to its mate make the book even more satisfying."
"The limited text and detailed illustrations, done in mixed media, capture a wide variety of wild animals and the interplay among them as they search for food and try to survive. Superb illustrations that carry the story along make this an outstanding choice for collections seeking winter stories."
"Woodruffâs (A Quieter Story) spare, evocative text ('A cold wind crept beneath Milo's scarf') quietly amplifies her expansive watercolor, pen-and-ink, and colored pencil drawings, which alternate between highly distilled snowy scenes and lushly detailed spreads; in one scene . . . It's a richly narrative landscapeâone that should inspire readers to venture outside and notice stories of their own."
"In the outdoor scenes, expanses of snow set off the mixed-media illustrationsâ clean lines and forest colors very effectively. An inviting read-aloud choice . . ."
"[A] satisfying story that can change with each rereading of Miloâs speculations and each reexamination of Woodruffâs crafty mixed media scenes."
