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"""What is snow?"" Araba, a Ghanaian child, asks her Canadian pen pal. The response unfolds as a letter in poetry, rich in lyricism and in what author Sheree Fitch would call ""lipslipperiness."" Janet Wilson's glowing pastel illustrations revel in all the sensory experiences, the color, associated with the cold white stuff. Through the asking and the telling, two children reach halfway around the world and touch one another."

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The lyrical text . . . conjures up nostalgic sensual images of snowflakes. Most scenes are alive with actionespecially the tobogganers who almost zoom off the page straight into your lap.

Fitch's poetry is full of dazzling images . . . Children will recognize the similarities and connections between themselves and others and the differences that make each child and every culture unique. Award-winning oil painter Janet Wilson brings the text to life with brilliantly coloured snapshots of childhood winters. . . . this book has a cozy, cuddle-on-the-couch quality. The lyrical text . . . conjures up nostalgic sensual images of snowflakes. Most scenes are alive with actionespecially the tobogganers who almost zoom off the page straight into your lap.

Award-winning oil painter Janet Wilson brings the text to life with brilliantly coloured snapshots of childhood winters. This book has a cozy, cuddle-on-the-couch quality. --Rockcliffe Reviews (09/01/2001) Fitch's poetry is full of dazzling images. --Booklist (03/01/2002) The lyrical text...conjures up nostalgic sensual images of snowflakes. Most scenes are alive with actionespecially the tobogganers who almost zoom off the page straight into your lap. --Resource Links (09/01/2001) Children will recognize the similarities and connections between themselves and others and the differences that make each child and every culture unique. --UNICEF Communique (09/01/2002)

Award-winning oil painter Janet Wilson brings the text to life with brilliantly coloured snapshots of childhood winters. This book has a cozy, cuddle-on-the-couch quality. --Rockcliffe Reviews (09/01/2001) The lyrical text...conjures up nostalgic sensual images of snowflakes. Most scenes are alive with actionespecially the tobogganers who almost zoom off the page straight into your lap. --Resource Links (09/01/2001) Children will recognize the similarities and connections between themselves and others and the differences that make each child and every culture unique. --UNICEF Communique (09/01/2002) Fitch's poetry is full of dazzling images. --Booklist (03/01/2002)

Award-winning oil painter Janet Wilson brings the text to life with brilliantly coloured snapshots of childhood winters. This book has a cozy, cuddle-on-the-couch quality. --Rockcliffe Reviews (09/01/2001) Children will recognize the similarities and connections between themselves and others and the differences that make each child and every culture unique. --UNICEF Communique (09/01/2002) The lyrical text...conjures up nostalgic sensual images of snowflakes. Most scenes are alive with actionespecially the tobogganers who almost zoom off the page straight into your lap. --Resource Links (09/01/2001) Fitch's poetry is full of dazzling images. --Booklist (03/01/2002)

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"Sheree Fitch has won almost every major award for Canadian children's literature, including the 2000 Vicky Metcalf Award for Literature for Young People, which acknowledges a ""body of work inspirational to Canadian children."" She has over twenty-five books to her credit. Her home base is on the east coast of Canada. Janet Wilson is an award-winning artist and a published author, holding over 50 publishing copyrights in the children's literature field. Her awards include Best Illustrated Book in the United States in 2004 for Jasper's Day, Canadian Information Book of the Year for her artwork in In Flanders Fields, and she is the first non-native artist to be awarded the Native Reading Week Award for her illustrations in Solomon's Tree. Janet is a career artist known for her fine art commissioned portraits and still life paintings. For more information, visit www.janetwilson.ca."

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