But the climb is steep and there’s something watching them from between the trees. Having completed their chilly enterprise, the children take to their sledge and go hurtling downhill, faces a-tingle, towards the woods.Įventually they come to a halt and decide home is where they now most want to be. Slips and slides are inevitable and a snowman, of sorts is duly built, although they decide their creation looks more like a snowbear. But be careful because the hill is too steep and slippery,” is their mother’s warning as they sally forth into the great outdoors. Monsters in Trucks / Tiny T.Two small children, a brother and sister wake to find that overnight their world has turned completely white.Clutch / Dragon Storm: Connor and Lightspirit.Fairytale Ninjas: The Glass Slipper Academy / Slugs Invade the Jam Factory.The Unbelievable Top Secret Diary of Pig.Small Stanley’s Big List of Scary Stuff.This is, I think a new author/artist collaboration: in her eloquent, soft focus illustrations, Claire Alexander brings out the drama of Sean Taylor’s deliberately understated narrative, as well as showing young children’s ability to immerse themselves completely in the here and now. “ … he could have gone back in the woods and he’s alive down there.” I wonder …Ī lovely wintry tale with just a frisson of fear, and an acknowledgement of the boundless imaginations of young children. Next morning though, the sun has melted their snowbear right away at least that’s Martina’s suggestion. Could it be that something or someone is coming to their rescue in that chilly white wood?
Two small children, a brother and sister wake to find that overnight their world has turned completely white.
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