I swear I'm not trying to bombard you with tales of snow. I just pull the books off the shelf and review them for you. But it does beg the question: do our friends and relatives think we live in Siberia?
THREE PROS
*Despite being close to fifty years old, the story is timeless and goes to show that having fun during winter might just be the one thing technology can't get it's little grubby paws on (he writes from his laptop)
*Melting a snowball accidentally in his pocket is a funny little tidbit
*The book is dedicated to someone named Tick
*The book is dedicated to someone named Tick
THREE CONS
*Ugh, another pointless ending
*Peter "knew he wasn't old enough" for the snowball fight, yet somehow he's right in the middle of it
*The book is dedicated to someone named Tick
ONE DAD'S OPINION
Looks like we have another Caldecott winner on our hands here. As our good friend Tick would probably tell us if forced to undergo a lie detector test, it was probably a Buy at some point early in its existence, but it has dropped down to a Borrow with the spike in competition in the children's book world. And since we're being honest here, it really is on the low end of that designation since it doesn't bring a whole lot of oomph to the table. Nonetheless, it's got its merits and has a nice classic appeal to it, so grab it next time you are at the library on a cold November night.
Buy / BORROW / Donate / Destroy
2 comments:
You left off the pro list the fact that it's one of the very few classic children's books with a black protagonist.
Mmm, good point. I was deciding whether I should include that but felt like I had discussed the benefits of diverse characters in a recent post (Pete's Puddles)...but in hindsight I think you are right.
EVERYONE READ THIS FOR PRO NUMBER FOUR!
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