Winter For Children

What can you do in the winter? Make a snow hill, snowball, snow fort, snow person, and snow angel. Pair this nonfiction title with its companion fiction book, Snow Clothes.

Annabeth lives a normal life as a happy girl in a small town. Then one day, her life is turned upside down by a royal pronouncement that she is in fact a princess. With evil nipping at her heals, Annabeth and Prince Ryan must battle stone monsters, bandits, and the dreaded ice witches in order to reclaim her title and dispense true justice throughout the land.

These ghostly tales are all based on ones Dawe himself has collected across the province over the years, include tales of ghostly galleons, of unsettling graves, of strange omens and fetches; an eerie tale of a notoriously haunted house; and another of a ghostly sled dog that returns to save its master lost in a blizzard.

Welcome to the Land of Icy Darkness and the Land of the Flaming Sun. In this energy-charged tale about how the weather was made, King Icicle tries to challenge the radiance of Queen Goldenlight as he struggles to dominate the earth. But an important lesson of balance and compromise emerges from the storm, and the king and queen agree to work together to establish the rotating seasons of winter and summer.

Carefully leveled text engages young listeners in learning about winter and its changes and adaptations. Age-appropriate critical thinking questions help build nonfiction learning skills.

Will they risk taking the plunge from friendship to forever? Oliver Klein’s wife and oldest daughter were lost at sea—a tragic mystery that left the small coastal town of Port Serenity reeling. Three years later, surrounded by the wild Alaskan waters that claimed them, the grieving...

When the harvest feast has ended with the laughs and cheer suspended, a ball, a ball, a winter’s ball, the time one’s needed most of all. Come, you revelers, big and small, we’ve got to have our winter’s ball. Join the creatures of the forest as they all come together to throw a festive winter's ball!

Evie is so excited to spend her Christmas holiday in Lapland – they’re going to visit Santa, go on a reindeer sleigh ride and watch the Northern Lights. She’s even dreamed about seeing her favourite animal – the arctic fox. Evie’s parents say this is unlikely, though, as hunting has left the species endangered. But when she hears a strange whining noise in the middle of the night, she follows the sounds and discovers a little arctic fox caught in a trap. Can Evie rescue him in time?

Bald ist Weihnachten, aber von Schnee fehlt jede Spur. Hexe Luna und ihr freches Eichhörnchen Rosi machen sich Sorgen. "Weihnachten ohne Schnee? Niemals!" Zum Glück kennt das schlaue Hexenbuch die Antwort: Der Einzige, der helfen kann, ist der geheimnisvolle und gut versteckte HERR WINTER. Doch wo lebt dieser Herr Winter? Wird er helfen, dass es doch noch weiße Weihnachten gibt? Was hat Hexentante Funny damit zu tun? Ein magisches Abenteuer beginnt! Eine zauberhafte Geschichte, für Jung und Alt, zum Lachen und Rätseln.

Als Steve und seinen Freunden Max, Lucy und Henry eine Karte mit dem Weg zum legendären Minenberg in die Hände fällt, halten sie es zunächst noch für einen schlechten Scherz. An diesem sagenhaften Ort soll es Diamanten in Hülle und Fülle geben, aber kaum jemand glaubt wirklich an dessen Existenz. Doch Steve und die Gang wollen dem Geheimnis auf den Grund gehen und landen bei ihren Nachforschungen in einer Stadt voller Schatzjäger. Werden sie das Mysterium des Minenberges lüften?

Steve und seine Freunde setzen alles daran, die Felder ihrer Weizenfarm vor feindlichem Zugriff zu schützen. Ausgerechnet jetzt taucht ihre alte Freundin Georgia auf und bittet um Hilfe. Georgias Dorf steckt nämlich in großen Schwierigkeiten, denn es wird von Skeletten belagert. Steve und seine Freunde zögern keine Sekunde und kommen den bedrängten Dörflern zu Hilfe, nur um feststellen zu müssen, dass eine Bande Griefer die Skelette in einer nahegelegenen Farm züchtet. Die Frage ist nur, zu welchem Zweck?

Wer hat den Wecker auf Frühling gestellt? Willkommen zurück im Stelzenhaus, wo Fidelia mal wieder mit ihrer Zauberei für ordentlich Chaos sorgt! Ein magischer Wecker lässt Schokoladeneier regnen, Karotten tanzen und Blumen das Kommando übernehmen. Professor Stups, die klügste, frechste und besserwisserischste Fledermaus der Welt, weiß natürlich sofort: Das kann nicht gut ausgehen. Minze, die geduldigste Katze überhaupt, bleibt dagegen cool – naja, meistens. Ein witziges Abenteuer voller Missgeschicke und Magie, das den Frühling so richtig auf den Kopf stellt!

The whole world seems to transform during the summer of 1965, when Eden’s cousin from Mississippi comes to visit her in L.A. just as the Watts Riots erupt, in this stirring new novel by Coretta Scott King Honor winner Brenda Woods. When Eden’s cousin Winter comes for a visit, it turns out...

Winter is the time for bundling up, playing in the snow with a new snowman friend. And catching snowflakes on your tongue before they disappear as Wonderful Winter fades into Spring.

I traveled across the globe from Vietnam to the United States and landed in Detroit, Michigan to reunite with my family. Coming from Saigon’s tropical weather, one of my wishes was to get to experience the magical beauty of a snow day for the first time, spent alongside my family. In the book, Goodbye Tropical Weather and Hello Winter, I share some of the great memories associated with this journey.

The trees are bare. Puddles have turned to ice. Birds puff up their feathers to stay warm. Hot cocoa hits the spot! Do you know what season is here? It’s winter! What else happens in winter? Listen to this audiobook to find out!

Hast du noch alle Socken in der Schublade? Oder wolltest du auch schon immer wissen, wohin die einzelnen Socken verschwinden?

Snow has arrived on Wimbledon Common! The young Wombles, including Bungo, Orinoco and Tomsk, can't wait to start sledging, making snow Wombles and generally having fun in the snow. Then one particular Womble decides to play a snowy trick on the small Wombles.

Through the exploits of Chicago's Big Dez Zombie Hunter, we see why zombie apocalypses have a season and why zombie hordes will never defeat humanity.

Bailey is a growing service puppy who spends his life learning new things, visiting exciting places, and meeting different people! At the beginning of his first fall season, Bailey’s Daddy decides to take him to a big forest filled with red, orange, and yellow leaves.