Snowy Mittens: A Winter Adventure (A Let's Play Outside! Book)

by Shauntay Grant, Candice Bradley (Illustrator)

Overview

The picture bookSnowy Mittens: A Winter Adventure isa celebration of Black joy and the simple pleasures of a day in the snow from award-winning poet and picture book author Shauntay Grant.

Follow along as a young boy spends the day sledding and ice skating with his family in this spare and poetic picture book. With a simple story—and simply stunning color illustrations from Candice Bradley—Snowy Mittens is an ode to celebrating winter’s coziest wonders, big and small.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781419763090
Publisher:	Abrams Appleseed
Publication date:	09/19/2023
Series:	Let's Play Outside!
Pages:	32
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.50(d)
Age Range:	3 - 5 Years

About the Author

Shauntay Grant is an acclaimed poet and author of several picture books, including Sandy Toes, One Day, When I Wrap My Hair, and My Fade Is Fresh, which earned a starred review in Publishers Weekly. Her picture book Africville won the 2019 Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award and was a finalist for the 2018 Governor General’s Literary Awards, the 2019 Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children’s Book Awards, and the 2019 Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia Masterworks Arts Award. Grant is an assistant professor of creative writing at Dalhousie University, a member of the College of the Royal Society of Canada, and a former poet laureate of Halifax. She lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and loves to go sledding with her family in winter.

Editorial Reviews

Perfect for a snuggle at the end of a cold day, this beautiful vision of Black joy and winter fun has classic appeal.”—Kirkus

From the Publisher

2023-08-26
A Black family enjoys a day in the snow.

One to four alliterative words on each spread frame the scenes in this action-based adventure for very young children. A parent helps a toddler close a coat against the cold, while nearby, a big sibling and another parent build a snowman. The children complete the snowman while birds and squirrels watch from a nearby tree. Next, the family brings out a sled, and three family members climb a “HUGE / HIGH / HILL” before sledding back down. Ice-skating and a snowball fight complete the day before the “haul / home,” where a warm fire glows and cocoa is savored while the “WILD / WIND” blows outside in the dark. An author’s note about squirrels and a final endpaper that shows the children near the same tree in spring cue readers to go back and observe the animals’ activities throughout. The text, printed in a large, bold font in capital letters, uses stand-alone words to label objects, activities, and feeling, perfect for encouraging language development in toddlers and helping preschoolers learn to read. Lovely in their simplicity, the illustrations show soft colors and careful compositions to create a visual narrative that children will enjoy following closely. Perfect for a snuggle at the end of a cold day, this beautiful vision of Black joy and winter fun has classic appeal.

A cozy treat. (Picture book. 1-4)

Kirkus Reviews