Sunday, December 15, 2019

Snowy Farm by Calvin Shaw - OPTIONAL

Snowy Farm by Calvin Shaw, illustrated by Oamul Lu, PICTURE BOOK A Paula Wiseman Book (Simon and Schuster Books for Young Readers), 2019. $18. 9781534410473 

BUYING ADVISORY: EL (K-3) - OPTIONAL 

AUDIENCE APPEAL: AVERAGE

A family lives on a snowy farm where it's too cold to grow anything, so the farmer harvests icicle carrots and snowball apples. The animals enjoy the snow and even make their own snow angels along with the children. 

A nice read, but it's rather weird. The author end note explains that he's imagining what it would be like to live indefinitely on Antarctica, but I wish that had been at the beginning. While the rhymes are nice the illustrations are confusing (the animals are wearing earmuffs - sometimes) and, for an imagined story, I was uncomfortable with the family looking very Inuit. It just doesn't work for me, and I think it would be confusing.

Lisa Librarian

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