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Herr Eichhorn Und Der Erste Schnee (2011)

by Sebastian Meschenmoser(Favorite Author)

4.31 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

3480223591 (ISBN13: 9783480223596)

languge

English

genre

Fantasy

publisher

Esslinger

review 1: I read Waiting for Winter by Sebastian Meschenmoser. The front cover has a squirrel on a branch and he is looking up toward the sky—he looks like he is searching for something. It is a simple cover, so I think it is going to be about the squirrel’s journey of him searching for winter. The pictures seemed to be drawn with pencil and colored in with soft colors, possibly by colored pencils. To me, this gives the book a calm, peaceful look to it. When you open the inside cover, it shows geese flying together, so it is possibly about all the different animals and how they wait for winter. The squirrel is the only object in color throughout the story. Everything else is shaded in with pencil. This draws your eye to him on each page because he is usually drawn fairly small. ... moreWhen each animal is added to the story, they are in color as well. And last, when winter finally comes, the pictures turn to color, like they are full of life again.The story is about a squirrel that has never seen it snow, so he is going to stay awake and “wait for winter”. While he does this, he has to keep himself awake, so he exercises, and this wakes up the hedgehog. The hedgehog decides he wants to see snow also, so they sing together to stay awake. This awakens a bear, who joins in with the waiting for snow. All three animals think they found snow, because at the beginning the deer described it as, “white and wet and cold and soft”, but none of the objects were snow. In the end, they finally got to see the snow. The story is told with dialogue, narration by a person outside the story, and pictures. The pictures show emotion and a little bit of foreshadowing for what is about to happen. This is could for predictions by students, and what they see in the picture and what that tells them that the animals might be thinking or how they might be feeling. This story has some humor to it that you have to pick up on from the pictures, so although the text complexity is very low, it may need to be for 3rd graders, or advanced second graders. I enjoyed reading this story because it is a fictional story that is entertaining and is not too drawn out. It would be good to have in the class library and to use as a read aloud for students that would be entertaining.
review 2: I don't think a cuter hedgehog and squirrel exist.They are waiting to see snow, singing loudly to stay awake -- so loudly they wake up Bear. They begin to think they've missed the snow . . . so they start looking for something cold and white and wet and soft (as the deer described it) and return with various objects that don't quite fit (a toothbrush, a sock, a tin can). The wordless two page spreads where each animal imagines his "snow" falling are hilarious! And then . . . it starts to snow. less

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