Books with title Snowflakes

In Snowflakes Fall, Newbery Medalist Patricia MacLachlan and award-winning artist Steven Kellogg portray life’s natural cycle: its beauty, its joy, and its sorrow. Together, the words and pictures offer the promise of renewal that can be found in our lives—snowflakes fall, and return again as raindrops so that flowers can grow. MacLachlan and Kellogg, who are longtime friends, were moved to collaborate on a message of hope for children and their families following the tragic events in Sandy Hook, Connecticut, on December 14, 2012. Kellogg lived in Sandy Hook for thirty-five years—he raised his family there and was an active member of the community. With Snowflakes Fall, they have created a truly inspiring picture book that is both a celebration of life and a tribute to the qualities that make each individual unique. In honor of the community of Sandy Hook and Newtown, Random House, the publisher of Snowflakes Fall, has made a donation to the Sandy Hook School Support Fund. Random House is also donating 25,000 new books to the national literacy organization First Book in the community’s honor and in support of children everywhere. From the Hardcover edition.

Featuring special glittered pages, this is a warm and cozy tale about a little bear, a Christmas surprise, and a very special snowflake.Sam is VERY excited. It’s Christmas Eve and Dad has set off into the forest to fetch a festive surprise. He promised to be back before the snow starts to fall but now it’s nighttime and there’s no snow—and no sign of Dad. Will Sam’s special, homemade snowflake help Dad to find his way out of the forest and home in time for Christmas morning?

“A timely, sobering message about how humankind’s treatment of the environment impacts the environment’s treatment of humankind.”―Publishers Weekly, starred review Ash arrives in Snowflake, Arizona, and finds a small community of people who are sick, including Ash’s stepbrother, Bly. But it isn’t any ordinary sickness: modern life is poisoning them, and when Ash too falls ill, the doctor’s response is, “It’s all in your mind.” Meanwhile, the world beyond is succumbing to a breakdown of civilization only distantly perceived by Ash and the isolated residents of Snowflake, from which there may or may not be a chance for recovery. This humane and thoughtful novel explores the resilience of love and community in the face of crisis.

Shy, fat Hannah Smith has a popular thin twin sister, a slender mother obsessed with cleaning, and a fat father in prison for violating federal laws against distributing junk food.The U.S. government controls access to chocolate and other foods considered fattening. Parents of fat youth must pay a special tax or their children have to go to a Laboratory School for the Weight Challenged -- a.k.a. "Fat School" -- where they are forced -- and shamed -- to lose weight.As her father's parole hearing nears, Hannah wants desperately to find out who turned her father in to the police. She enlists her best friend and secret crush, Christian, in her investigation. But with Hannah's father's businesses faltering her mother can no longer pay her Fat Tax, and Hannah is sent to Fat School. She continues to search for her father's betrayer, but soon finds herself drawn into a more frightening mystery: the largest teenagers at Fat School are disappearing.How far will Hannah go to find the truth?

Every winter, Grandma would get us out, her white vinyl snowflakes. "Just in case we don't get real snow," Grandma would say as she put us on display in all the windows of the house. But one year, Grandma left one of us out, stuck on the window all year! And oh my! The wonders we were told about when Grandma got us out again--other seasons, warm weather, swimming, ghosts and goblins, flowers, flying wonders! And best of all, we learned about the family history.

A little girl waits patiently for winter to snow. She must endure, nearly, the entire winter without a sign of snow. From the television forecast, it seems without hope of snow for winter. The reader is led on an adventure of winter wonder, through colorful paintings of landscape, told with rhythm, rhyme, and melodious lyrics: the character of a little girl driven by the need to kiss snowflakes. Finally, near the end of winter, although she sits and stares, in a fixed gaze, up at the sky, all hope of snowflakes falling to earth seem dismal.