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The Snowy Day


Title: The Snowy Day
Author: Ezra Jack Keats
Illustrator: Ezra Jack Keats
Publisher: Puffin
Year Published: 1976
Format: Hardcover/ Paperback/ Audio book
Genre: Picture Storybooks
Reading Level: Assisted Reader
Reading Interest Level: Baby/ Pre- School
Topics: Snow
Summary: Throughout the story The Snowy Day, a little boy celebrates the snow-draped city with a day of humble adventures--experimenting with footprints, knocking snow from a tree, creating snow angels, and trying to save a snowball for the next day.
Extension Activity: Since this book is aimed at such young children, the extension activity would to make snowflakes to cut out and hang around the classroom to remind kids of snow and a winter wonder land.