White Snow, Bright Snow by Alvin
Tresselt
A Winter Wonderland From A Bygone Era
When the first flakes fell from the grey sky, the postman and the farmer
and the policeman and his wife scurried about doing all the practical things
grownups do when a snowstorm comes. But the children laughed and
danced, and caught the lacy snowflakes on thier tongues.
All the wonder and delight a child feels in a snowfall is caught in the pages
of this book -- the frost ferns on the window sill, the snow man in the yard
and the mystery and magic of a new white world. Roger Duvoisins pictures
in soft blue half-tones with briliant splashes of yellow and red emphasize
the gaiety and humor as well as the poetic quality of the text.
Personal Review: White Snow, Bright Snow by Alvin Tresselt
This classic book published in 1947 wraps me in a soft fuzzy blanket of
nostalgia and makes me crave the good ol' days of clean white snow and
sledding, rubber boots and all the neighborhood children playing together
in the huge drifts. It takes me back to being snowed-in, warm fire in the
fireplace, hot cocoa and the Postman whose name I knew bringing
armloads of Christmas cards. The world depicted in this book does not
include the sound of a snow-blower or a snow-mobile. It does not have
Doppler radar to let me know it's going to snow. In this book we rely upon
the ache in a woman's big toe and the fact that a farmer says it smells like
snow. The rabbits know it and the kids search the grey sky waiting for the
first snowflakes. This book takes us from those first feathery flakes
through a really deep snowfall. We're there as the townspeople shovel
themselves out. We're there as the grown-ups contend with the winter
snow and the children revel in it. Eventually Spring comes and is greeted
with as much gladness as the first snowflakes. The simple four color
watercolor illustrations are just wonderful and made me yearn for the days
when we didn't hurry from climate controlled houses to climate controlled
cars to shopping malls with trees and fountains, for the days when we
were on speaking terms with the weather. The writing in this book is so
lyrical and gentle that it makes a perfect bedtime story and it is sure to
warm the heart of the adult who's doing the reading. For example, "Then
without a sound, just when everybody was asleep, the snow stopped, and
bright stars filled the night. In the morning a clear blue sky was overhead
and blue shadows hid in all the corners." Share this one.

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