Goodbye Winter, Hello Spring by Kenard Pak - OPTIONAL

Goodbye Winter, Hello Spring by Kenard Pak.  PICTURE BOOK Godwin Books (Henry Holt), 2020.  $18.  9781250151728  

BUYING ADVISORY: EL (K-3) – OPTIONAL 

AUDIENCE APPEAL: AVERAGE  

A little boy and his dog go out on a winter night and watch the snow fall.  They wander the forest and marvel at the ice and their footprints in the snow.  When the sun comes up, the snow turns to slush and slowly the world starts to turn to spring.  

Pak’s illustrations are dreamy and draw you into the winter environment.  The pictures bring all the excitement of changing seasons and this appears to be Pak’s third book about the changing seasons.  The text however, is boring and formatted in a confusing way.  The little boy says hello to the snow and then the snow answers, but it’s not separated by page or by font, so it just reads like a bunch of hello statements that change narrator—confusing.  

Reviewer, C. Peterson