Here is a list of great Snow books
to start off the colder weather! Our resident Children's Librarian
Shan recommends these to parents and teachers to read and share.
If you are looking for Easy Chapter books about Winter and Snow click here.
Classics:
KATY AND THE BIG SNOW (W/CD)by Virginia Lee Burton
This classic
features a snowplow named Katie who manages to dig out the whole town
when a huge snowstorm hits. Great to familiarize kids with maps and
plenty of repetition!
Reading Information:
Word Count: 707
Page Count: 40
Accelerated Reading level: 2.9 / points: 0.5
AR quiz: 19575
Lexile: 420L
-- sample pages available
by Raymond Briggs
This
wordless picture book takes on the magical story of a boy befriending a
snowman. Whimsical and gentle, this story is best read one on one.
(Prek-1st)
Reading Information:
It's Wordless!
Page Count: 40
-- sample pages available
THE SNOWY DAYby Ezra Jack Keats
Caldecott Award Winner!
Quite possibly the most famous work by this author. In "The Snowy Day" an inner city boy explores the day out in the snow. It’s still fairly unusual to find books where snow takes place in the city.
Word Count: 316
Page Count: 40
Accelerated Reading level: 2.5 / points: 0.5
AR quiz: 6092
Lexile: AD500L
Un Dia De Nieve
[The Snowy Day -- spanish edition!]
OWL MOONby Jane Yolen, John Schoenherr, Illus.
Caldecott Award Winner!
The story of a parent and child out for a moonlit romp in the snow, hunting for a great horned owl.
Word Count: 751
Page Count: 40
Accelerated Reading level: 3.2 / points: 0.5
AR quiz: 5532
Lexile: 630L
-- sample pages available
Young Listeners (Toddlers—Kindergarten)
IT'S SNOWING!by Olivier Dunrea
A charming book with a mother and baby frolicking in the new snow until it’s time to come back to their cozy cottage. Musical text and charming pictures make this a good read for the very young.
Word Count: 257
Page Count: 32
Accelerated Reading level: 1.1 / points: 0.5
AR quiz: 65736
-- sample pages available
FROGGY GETS DRESSED (w/CD)by Jonathan London
One
of a series of Froggy books. Froggy wants to go out in the snow, but
every time he gets dressed, he forgets some article of clothing!
Word Count: 428Page Count: 32
Accelerated Reading level: 1.8 / points: 0.5
AR quiz: 17526
Lexile: 300L
-- sample pages available
An adorable bedtime book about a young polar bear and his environment—wonderful illustrations and lyrical text.
No reading info currently available
Page Count: 40
-- sample pages available
DREAM SNOW by Eric Carle
This
one is also a Christmas book, but it’s the charming collage work and
plastic overlays of the pages with snowflakes that really bring this
book to life.
Word Count: 373
Page Count: 32
Accelerated Reading level: 2.5 / points: 0.5
AR quiz: 46136
Lexile: AD300L
-- sample pages available
A PENGUIN STORYby Antoinette Portis
** Starred Review Publishers Weekly**
Penguins
seem to go along with a world of snow! In this story, our young
penguin is sick of the stark landscape and goes looking for something .
. . different.
Word Count: 293
Page Count: 40
Accelerated Reading level: 1.4 / points: 0.5
AR quiz: 126994
Lexile: 220L
-- sample pages available
SNOW DAYby Komako Sakai
** Starred Review Publishers Weekly**
** Starred Review Library School Journal**
A
young urban bunny’s world is transformed by snow. His kindergarten is
closed and his father can’t catch his flight. Captures some of the
experiences and feelings youngsters might have on a snow day where
things shut down.
Word Count: 255
Page Count: 32
Accelerated Reading level: 1.5 / points: 0.5
AR quiz: 127690
Lexile: 370L
-- sample pages available
SNOW RIDERSby Constance McGeorge and Mary Whyte
Imagination
takes flight in this lusciously illustrated book about children who
create snow horses that come to life in the night and take them for a
ride.
No reading info currently available
Page Count: 32
-- sample pages available
SNOW by Uri Shulevitz
**Caldecott Honor Book**
Uri Shulevitz tends to say more with his pictures than with words. In
this book a snow storm gradually begins, despite the skepticism of the
city folk, and to the delight of the young boy.
Word Count: 156
Page Count: 32
Accelerated Reading level: 1.6 / points: 0.5
AR quiz: 28079
Lexile: 220L
-- sample pages available
SNOWby Cynthia Rylant
Lauren Stringer
** Starred Review BookList**
A Celebration of snow in lyrical text and lovely pictures!
Word Count: 326
Page Count: 40
Accelerated Reading level: 3.0 / points: 0.5
AR quiz: 122947
Lexile: AD840L
-- sample pages available
Older Readers/Listeners (1st-3rd)
JAN BRETT'S SNOW TREASURYby Jan Brett
A Collection of Jan Brett classics, including The Mitten, The Hat, Gingerbread Baby and The Three Snowbears (an Inuit Goldilocks), all set in marvelous snowy climes.
No reading info currently available
Page Count: 144
-- sample pages available
THE SNOW QUEENby Amy Erlich and Susan Jeffers
One of Hans Christian Andersen’s classic tales retold here, with lush
illustrations by veteran illustrator Susan Jeffers. Beautifully done.
Word Count: 3,541
Page Count: 32
Accelerated Reading level: 4.5 / points: 1.0
AR quiz: 109404
-- sample pages available
Snowflake Bentleyby Jacqueline Briggs Martin
Mary Azarian (Illustrator)
**Caldecott Medal Winner**
** Starred Review BookList**
** Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books Blue Ribbon** A biography of a self-taught scientist who photographed thousands of individual snowflakes in order to study their unique formations.
4.14 Stars from 3170 GoodReads voters
Word Count: 979
Page Count: 32
Accelerated Reading level: 4.4 / points: 0.5
AR quiz: 27678
Lexile: AD830L
-- sample pages available
SNOW MOONby Nicholas Brunelle
A poetical journey into the magical night where our narrator encounters owls. An enchanting little book with just the right dollop of wonder and magic.
Word Count: 144
Page Count: 40
Accelerated Reading level: 3.5 / points: 0.5
AR quiz: 102270
-- sample pages available
by Carolyn Fisher (with Chef Kelvin)
A humorous science read on the processes of evaporation, deposition
and precipitation. Dynamic art and text with lots of facts about snow!
Word Count: 679
Page Count: 48
Accelerated Reading level: 2.9 / points: 0.5
AR quiz: 123077
-- sample pages available
