Counting On Snow
  • Published: 2 January 2018
  • ISBN: 9781770499928
  • Imprint: Tundra Books
  • Format: Board Book
  • Pages: 22
  • RRP: $13.99

Counting On Snow

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Board Book
2 Jan 2018
Hardback
15 Feb 2011
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A quiet Arctic counting book that celebrates animals in a wild winter landscape, available for the first time in board book.

Maxwell Newhouse, folk artist extraordinaire, has created a unique counting book. The premise is simple. He invites children to count with him from ten crunching caribou down to one lonely moose, by finding other northern animals - from seals to wolves to snowy owls - as they turn the pages. But as the animals appear, so does the snow, until it's a character too, obliterating light and dark, sky and earth.

A gorgeous exploration of the isolation and the beauty of northern winter, Maxwell Newhouse has created a deceptively simple picture book that can be enjoyed by all ages.
  • Published: 2 January 2018
  • ISBN: 9781770499928
  • Imprint: Tundra Books
  • Format: Board Book
  • Pages: 22
  • RRP: $13.99
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About the author

Maxwell Newhouse

MAXWELL NEWHOUSE is a highly accomplished folk artist whose work has been widely exhibited in galleries across Canada. He has illustrated Laura Secord: A Story of Courage by Janet Lunn and Emily Carr: At the Edge of the World by Jo Ellen Bogart. He has also written and illustrated several books including the acclaimed The RCMP Musical Ride, Let's Go for a Ride - a finalist for the Governor General's Literary Award in Children's Illustration, The House That Max Built, and The Weber Street Wonder Work Crew.

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Praise for Counting On Snow

PRAISE FOR Counting on Snow:

"Original without being gimmicky, Counting on Snow should come with the purchase of every crib in this country, as it has all the makings of a Canadian classic." --Starred Review, Quill & Quire

"A sparse and lovely meditation on winter wilderness." --Publishers Weekly

"A quiet Arctic counting book .... Dramatic oils contained within frames against glossy white pages .... As the countdown proceeds, the snow begins to fall, getting heavier with each panel until it nearly obscures the animals; the effect of the snow over the five wolves, four hares, three polar bears and two snowy owls -- all white to begin with -- is spectacular, and readers will feel the chill. Lovely and, thanks to its small trim, intimate." --Kirkus Reviews

"Great gift book for kids ... the landscape changes from flower-bright meadows to drifting snowflakes to blizzard. The fun is in spotting the creatures; the beauty is in the wild, silent world we're drawn into." --The Toronto Star

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