School Library Journal Review
Gr 1-3-Because of a snow day, Emily has extra time to decide on a topic for her school report. She invites her new friend from California over to play, and Marietta suggests that they make a snow town to prevent the neighborhood boys from throwing snowballs at them. In this easy reader set in 18-point type, Bliss uses short sentence structure and repetition to describe the classmates as they make a snow fort, snow town, snow money, and even a snow restaurant with spaghetti and snowballs. Emily finally decides that snow is a topic worthy of a school report. Readers will enjoy the turn from throwing snowballs to a cooperative arrangement due to the cleverness of a child who has never experienced winter. Poydar's colorful illustrations show a multiethnic gathering of friends enjoying the day off from school. Beginning readers who are ready for longer tales than Roy McKie and P. D. Eastman's Snow (Beginner, 1962) will take to this day-off-from-school story with as much eagerness as an official snow day.-Blair Christolon, Prince William Public Library System, Manassas, VA (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Booklist Review
Gr. 1-3. In this sweet, easy-flowing Step into Reading book, a snow day that closes school provides Emily with some welcome and unexpected outdoor activity as well as a topic for her school paper. Short sentences and nicely spaced text make reading easier, and Bliss includes lots of dialogue to get new readers used to seeing those pesky quotation marks. The illustrations are suitably energetic and plentiful, if a bit washed out. (Reviewed March 15, 1999)0679982221Stephanie Zvirin
