Displaying 1 of 1 2020 Format: Book Author: Woodruff, Liza, author, illustrator. Title: Once upon a winter day / Liza Woodruff. Edition: First edition. Publisher, Date: New York : Holiday House, [2020] Description: 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm Summary: "Milo's mother is too busy to read him a story so she sends him outside to play in the snow where he discovers a story of his own"-- Provided by publisher. Target Audience Note: Ages 4-8. Holiday House. Grades K-1. Holiday House. Subjects: Nature stories. Winter -- Juvenile fiction. Storytelling -- Juvenile fiction. Genre: Picture books. Notes: "Margaret Ferguson Books." LCCN: 2019039866 ISBN: 9780823440993 (hardcover) 0823440990 (hardcover) OCLC: 1135912078 System Availability: 2 # System items in: 2 # Local items: 0 # Local items in: 0 Current Holds: 0 Place Request Add to My List Expand All | Collapse All Availability Large Cover Image Trade Reviews Publishers Weekly ReviewMilo wants a story, but his busy mother sends him to play in the snow instead. Miffed, he starts following a set of tiny mouse tracks beneath the bird feeder. As he picks up clues (a feather, a fish's skeleton), asks questions ("Who had dug beneath the snow?"), and knits together his observations, he makes up a tale all on his own. And he's not the only storyteller out there: the observant mouse responsible for the tracks is the protagonist of its own exciting drama--it must get a juicy red winterberry home without being eaten by a hawk. Woodruff's (A Quieter Story) spare, evocative text ("A cold wind crept beneath Milo's scarf") quietly amplifies her expansive watercolor, pen-and-ink, and colored pencil drawings, which alternate between highly distilled snowy scenes and lushly detailed spreads; in one scene, the mouse scampers past a closely packed herd of velvety brown deer foraging for acorns. It's a richly narrative landscape--one that should inspire readers to venture outside and notice stories of their own. Ages 4--8. Agent: Andrea Cascardi, Transatlantic Agency. (Nov.) Librarian's View Displaying 1 of 1