Winter Family Reading List
Connection , Winter 2012
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Here at Rhythm of the Home, we know how important reading is to you and your family. Children are natural lovers of stories, and sharing seasonal books and poems with them can create traditions that can be passed down for generations.
A few of our readers recently shared their favorite winter reads with us, and we think that the collection will delight children young and old. You can find our picks from last winter here, and we wish you and yours a long season of reading fun.
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Mama Do You Love Me? by Barbara M. Joosse
Owl Moon by Jane Yolen
Snow by Uri Shulevitz
Ollie’s Ski Trip by Elsa Maartman Beskow
The Story of The Snow Children by Sibylle Olfers
The Tomten by Astrid Lindgren
The Big Snow by Berta and Elmer Hader
Snow Riders by Constance W. McGeorge
The Mitten by Jan Brett
First Snow in the Woods: A Photographic Fantasy by Jean Stoick and Carl R Sams II
Sun Bread by Elisa Kleven
Stranger in the Woods: A Photographic Fantasy: Snowflake Edition by Jean Stoick and Carl R Sams II
Tracks in the Snow by Wong Herbert Yee
Little Fairy’s Christmas by Daniela Drescher
Lucia and the Light by Katherine Bolger Hyde
Snowflake Bentley by Jacqueline Briggs Martin
Winter, Awake by Linda Kroll and Ruth Lieberherr
The Festival of Stones: Autumn and Winter Tales of Tiptoes Lightly by Reg Down
The Shortest Day: Celebrating the Winter Solstice by Wendy Pfeffer
Bear Snores On by Karma Wilson and Jane Chapman
Home for Christmas by Jan Brett
Grandmother Winter by Phyllis Root, Harold Ober Associates Inc. and Beth Krommes
Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost and Susan Jeffers
The Sandman by Rien Poortvliet
Annie and the Wild Animals by Jan Brett
Amazing Peace: A Christmas Poem by Maya Angelou
The Jacket I Wear in the Snow by Shirley Neitzel and Nancy Winslow Parker
The Snowy Day: 50th Anniversary Edition by Ezra Jack Keats
Fox’s Dream by Keizaburo Tejima
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Compiled by the Editors and Readers of Rhythm of the Home.
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