My Snow Globe: A Sparkly Peek-Through Story

by Megan E. Bryant, Melissa Iwai (Illustrator)

Overview

Journey through glittery snowscapes in this magical snow globe story full of beautiful wintertime scenes and surprising animal friends!

A charming new snow globe-inspired board book just in time for the holidays! This shaped board book looks just like a snow globe with a clear acetate window and shimmery glitter on every die-cut layered page. Kids won't be able to resist turning the pages, reading the lyrical story by Megan E. Bryant, and watching the colorful illustrations by Melissa Iwai come to life. With adorable forest animals hidden on every spread, here's a glorious gift book to treasure all throughout the snowy season. Safe for all ages.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780545921763
Publisher:	Scholastic, Inc.
Publication date:	09/27/2016
Pages:	10
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 8.25(h) x (d)
Lexile:	AD430L (what's this?)
Age Range:	3 Months to 18 Years

About the Author

Melissa Iwai received her BFA in Illustration from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. Now she's an illustrator of many board books and picture books for children, including Truck Stop, Hush Little Monster, and Green as a Bean. She lives in Brooklyn with her family.
Megan E. Bryant has been writing stories and collecting miniatures since she was a little girl. Megan has written dozens of books for kids, but The Tiny Geniuses is the first time she's been able to combine her passion for storytelling with her love of little things. She lives in Winston-Salem, North Carolina with her family.

Editorial Reviews

2016-08-30
This board book offers sturdy pages that can be handled more roughly than the breakable knickknack it tries to emulate. A circular clear plastic window dotted with sparkling glitter "snow" reveals decorative cutouts reminiscent of holiday greeting cards. These pages are cleverly layered, but the text and pictures don't always match. The second stanza invites readers to "follow the footprints," but the footprints in the pictures are indistinct, failing to deliver on an implied game. Rhyming verses set in arcs to echo the rounded shape of a snow globe point out some detail of each animal's behavior or home. The final page shows previously introduced animals—foxes, rabbits, moose, raccoons, and owl—in relation to one another, some snuggled belowground and others foraging above. This might clarify some of the rather difficult vocabulary and help young children understand what a "den" and "burrow" are, but introducing a chipmunk to the scene may confuse observant readers. A cardinal flits across each spread until landing in its winter nest, which also houses a mama bird and three babies—a distressingly inaccurate depiction of the avian life cycle in winter. The text's repeated invitation to shake this fake snow globe will frustrate 21st-century children, who expect more from interactive books. (Board book. 2-4)

Kirkus Reviews