We’ve had our first snow of the season which has prompted us to read some of our favourite snowy picture books. They include snowballs, snowy journeys, hibernation, penguins and cold, snowy nights. We’d love to hear your snowy picture book suggestions too.
The different ways that the playroom toys try to explain snow to Jolly Tall are really inventive. Jolly Snow inspired us to make our own snowflakes and we still want to make Bramwell’s snowflake biscuits.
Jolly Snow (Old Bear and Friends)
by Jane Hissey [Scribblers]
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Pip and Posy have lots of fun in the snow in Pip and Posy: A Snowy Day until building a snow animal causes an argument. They manage to resolve their differences and find a solution to their problem using play dough.
by Axel Scheffler [Nosy Crow Ltd]
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Silver and Sparkle have never seen snow before but they find it lots of fun to play in in Little Deer Lost. This is a lovely story for initiating an animal footprints activity.
by Janet Bingham [Scholastic]
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Cuddly Dudley‘s attempts to get away from his overbearing family take him on a journey across the snow. It’s not often that you see a penguin wearing a Hawaiian shirt!
by Jez Alborough [Walker Books Ltd]
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Percy the Park Keeper kindly gives his animal friends shelter on One Snowy Night. Percy’s shed is full by the end of the night. Where will he sleep?!
One Snowy Night (Percy the Park Keeper)
by Nick Butterworth [HarperCollins]
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Little Hedgehog gives his hat, scarf and mittens away in One Winter’s Day but his friends reward his kindness with their own thoughtful gesture,
by butler-m-christina-macnaughton-tina [Little Tiger Press]
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In One Snowy Night Little Hedgehog should be hibernating but he is too cold. His attempt to deliver a present to Rabbit causes him to get lost in the snow but the present comes in useful when Fox finds him.
by M Christina Butler [Zhong Guo Dian Li Chu Ban She/Tsai Fong Books]
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Bear Snores On is a lovely, simple rhyming story to introduce young children to the concept of hibernation and animals sleeping through the winter.
by Karma Wilson [Simon & Schuster Childrens Books]
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Herman makes an epic journey through the snow to deliver a letter to his friend Henry in Herman’s Letter. Does he manage to get there before it is time for him to hibernate?
by Tom Percival [Bloomsbury Publishing PLC]
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Do you have a favourite snowy picture book? We’d love to hear your recommendations in the comments.
Find more of our favourite picture books about snow along with snow inspired arts, crafts and learning activities on Pinterest
Oh this is amazing – we LOVE books and I have been building the girls a library! They adore being read to and seeing all the illustrations! xx
Building up a child’s library is a really fun thing to do and I love reading my childhood favourites as much as I do newly published books.
A Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats is my all time favorite.
Oh yes, that’s a lovely book 🙂
That is a lovely book 🙂
Oh I love your list Catherine! My kids really enjoyed “The Little Snowflake” by Steve Metzger when they were little. And, I agree – “A Snowy Day” is such a classic! Thanks for joining us in the Kid Lit Blog Hop! Happy New Year! 🙂
Happy New Year to you too Renee! The cover of The Little Snowflake is lovely 🙂
Some wonderful books you have here. I might just have to add a few to my growing collection.
Naila Moon from the Kid Lit Bog Hop
Thank you Naila, I hope that you find one that you enjoy 🙂
Ooh, I haven’t read any of these! Will have to check them out 🙂
Would love to hear which ones you enjoy Kate 🙂
Lovely. We love wintery books too at the moment. Libby is particularly into the Campbell Let’s Play Ice Skating book. She loves to move the levers around and make things happen. We reviewed some lovely ones at Christmas including this. I like the sound of the little hedgehog from your list, I love books that teach kindness, it’s so important.x
I’ve just looked at Let’s Play Ice Skating – it looks like a really fun, novelty book 🙂
I’m a former Kindergarten teacher so I just love picture books- especially themed ones! I’m so happy my son is really into them too. My son loves That’s Not My Snowman. I also loved reading Tacky the Penguin, The Snowman, Snowman at Night and The Snowy Day to my class.
We like Tacky the Penguin and That’s Not My Snowman was one of our favourite toddler books. We watched The Snowman at Christmas, it’s a beautiful story 🙂
Bear Snores On is our favorite book about snow. We also like You Can Do It Sam. You always create the most lovely lists. Hopping over from the Kid Lit Blog Hop.
Thank you! Have just looked at You Can Do It Sam, it sounds a lovely story 🙂
we love pip & posy snowy day – gets read so much
#readwithme
The Pip and Posy books were really well read when my daughter was younger 🙂
These all look so sweet, perfect for this season. thanks for linking up with #readwithme x
You’re welcome. The snow has all melted now but it really added to the Christmas holiday fun 🙂
This is a wonderful list! Must check out a few for my toddler.
The Pip and Posy stories are great for toddlers 🙂
We don’t have a single book on snow in our house!! How crazy is that? Thanks for the great recommendations and for sharing on the Kid Lit Blog Hop!
Wow! We have snowy picture books, now I’m going to check out which other kinds of picture books about weather we have!
What a great idea for a list – they all look beautiful. Thank you for linking to #PoCoLo
Thank you 🙂
What a lovely selection, I’m going to have to check some of these out 🙂
There were so many more that we could have included!