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L'année Magique Des Bonhommes De Neige (2011)

by Caralyn Buehner(Favorite Author)

3.91 of 5 Votes: 5

languge

English

genre

Humor

publisher

Scholastic

review 1: I loved Snowmen at Christmas and Snowmen at Night by Caralyn Buehner. I read these two books sometime every school year to classes. This book was purchased at the school's recent Book Fair and I found it. I needed a book today and thought Aha!! I loved the new book's bright pictures. I loved the boy's wish for a snowman to celebrate all the holidays. The students were trying to find the hidden items on the pages as I read. But they were not having much luck with that since I was holding it up. They generally found the ducks. The story flowed nicely from one holiday to the next. I guess though I missed the bunch of snowmen as this book had only one snowman.Cute story. I will read it again and again to kids. They will be checking it out a lot so that they can find all the hi... moredden ducks, rabbits, and more on each page.
review 2: I loved Snowmen at Night (2002) and Snowmen at Christmas (2005), the two previous snowmen books by Caralyn (author) and Mark (illustrator) Buehner. They are, quite possibly, the books my grandchildren most often request (after all-time #1 Chicka Chicka Boom Boom, of course) and ones I never tire of reading to them. Because it's been five years since the publication of Snowmen at Christmas I thought we might have seen the last of this series, so I was thrilled to find that the Buehners' had created a new one! In Snowmen at Night, a young boy, noting how the snowman he built seems differently shaped the morning after being created, imagines the wonderful games snowmen play during the night while humans sleep. Similarly, in Snowmen at Christmas, he imagines how snowmen might celebrate the holiday. The Buehners' again follow this successful idea in Snowmen All Year. This time, though, a child day-dreams about having his snowman with him year-round and imagines all the things they would do together if that were the case. The adventures he plans are simple pleasures - kite flying and swimming, a day at the beach, one at the zoo and another at an amusement park, firefly chasing and camping out under the stars. These are things my grandchildren have done with friends and relatives - even with me! - and I think that commonality will connect them more deeply with the story, helping to make it another favorite. The rhyming verse is simple and pleasant, but it is the artwork that really shines here. The glowing colors and expressive faces are joyous and warm, engaging children and adults alike. My favorite pictures have the snowman blowing out the candles on a birthday cake (the cheeks!) and contemplating his next move in a game of chess, chin propped in mittened hands. Adding to the fun, hidden pictures are incorporated into the artwork and children will enjoy searching for ducks, rabbits, cats and dinosaurs. A good many snowmen also hide in these pages - some peeking out from behind buildings or trees, others shaped in clouds or found in the space between them. The snowmen books are, simply put, great fun to read and a delight to look at. I'd love to have a dozen more from Caralyn and Mark Buehner but, for now, I'll content myself with the three they've given us. I look forward to sharing this newest one often with children I love. Very highly recommended. less

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