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So all this strange white stuff falling around the streets this winter (and they are calling for more this week!) does put one in the mood for curling up on the sofa.  Accompanied of course by hot chocolate and a blanket with a book that makes you feel even warmer than you are.

The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats:  So classic.  Every kid should own a copy.

His Dark Materials Trilogy trilogy by Phillip Pullman: It’s the armoured polar bear.  And that so much of it takes place in the North.  And for some reason, “North” is always cold in fantasy books.

Little House in the Big Woods and The Long Winter (Little House) by Laura Ingalls Wilder: for some reason, it’s the winter scenes that stick the most with me from these books. The snow candy, the trip across the Big Slough, Papa playing violin during a winter storm.  Good times.

Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George: It takes place in Alaska.  Of course there is going to be a lot of snow in the book.

Smilla’s Sense of Snow by Peter Hoeg:

It’s freezing — an extraordinary 0 Fahrenheit — and it’s snowing, and in the language that is no longer mine, the snow is qanik – big, almost weightless crystals falling in clumps and covering the ground with a layer of pulverized white frost

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