A cozy winter bedtime story, featuring a boy and animal characters, that touches on the concept of hibernation.
When a young Japanese girl moves into her new house, she is happy to see a girl her age playing in the snow just outside her window. The only problem is the Japanese girl doesn't speak English and the American girl doesn't speak Japanese. But each girl's love of the snow teaches them that they don't need to speak the same language to have fun!
Animals in forests, ponds, and fields survive the winter and the snow by slowing down their metabolisms and resting in in such places as burrows, nests, stone fences, at the bottom of ponds, under leaves, or in the mud.
Follow a magnificent polar bear through a fantastic world of snow and shockingly blue sea. Over the ice, through the water, past Arctic animals and even a human... where is he going?
As snowflakes slowly come down, one by one, people in the city ignore them, and only a boy and his dog think that the snowfall will amount to anything.
During the early days of the Great Depression, New York City's first Puerto Rican librarian, Pura Belpré, introduces the public library to immigrants living in El Barrio and hosts the neighborhood's first Three Kings' Day fiesta.
One cold morning, a lonely boy wishes for something to do. Then someone who knows what winter is all about comes to play.
A mother polar bear answers the questions of her two curious cubs about what lies beyond their cozy winter den as they wait for spring to arrive.
Follows a pair of birds on a snowflake-filled journey through a winter landscape, where everything everywhere, from branches and leaves to forests full of trees, is unique.
On a winter's night under a full moon, a father and daughter trek into the woods to see the Great Horned Owl.
