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LOIS EHLERT has created many celebrated picture books inspired by the world around her. She lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

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"Diverting and beautifully realized."--The Los Angeles Times Book Review
"Ms. Ehlert is a talented artist whose books are visually distinctive."--The New York Times Book Review
"Spectacular."--School Library Journal
"The winning combination of art and text encourage[s] attentive reading and promote[s] observation of detail."--The Boston Globe
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PreS-Gr 2‘Ehlert once again displays the innovative collage style that so vividly celebrated spring and summer in Growing Vegetable Soup (1990) and Planting a Rainbow (1988), and autumn in Red Leaf, Yellow Leaf (1991) and Nuts to You! (1993, all Harcourt). Here, she puts a creative twist on one of the favorite traditions of winter‘building a snowman, or, in this case, a snow family, including pets. Children who believe snowmen must have charcoal eyes and carrot noses will be inspired by the unique adornments, for each creation here is decorated with the narrator's cache of ``good stuff in a sack.'' Mom's hair is a Guatemalan belt; boy's nose is a toy compass; baby's arms are plastic picnic forks; dog's spots are a collection of buttons. As in the previous books, bold, rhyming text describes the simple pleasures of the season. The contrasting sensations of the crisp iciness and dreary isolation of winter are effectively created by placing the colorfully decorated white figures against a textured gray background on double-page vertical spreads. The background glows bright orange as the sun appears. Ehlert concludes her book with some winter facts, photographs of snowmen, and a recipe for popcorn balls. Another spectacular effort.‘Kathy Piehl, Mankato State University, MN

"Diverting and beautifully realized."--The Los Angeles Times Book Review
"Ms. Ehlert is a talented artist whose books are visually distinctive."--The New York Times Book Review
"Spectacular."--School Library Journal
"The winning combination of art and text encourage[s] attentive reading and promote[s] observation of detail."--The Boston Globe
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