Blizzard
John Rocco
ISBN: 9781423178651
Norman-Rockwell Americana in a pint-sized snowy adventure.
This was adorable. We're taken back to the past, when a freak blizzard blew through our narrator's town, burying it in over 4 feet of snow in one afternoon. At first, this was a great treat (school let out early, snowmen and snowforts galore) but after a couple of days of being snowed-in, spirits start to settle, and the food starts getting tight.
In a heroic (and adorable) bid to save the family from gustatory boredom, our narrator sets out across the blizzarded neighborhood to fetch groceries for his family and for the neighbors. A full-spread page of his perambulations through the neighborhood make it clear that this was not some dire mission, but an adventurous trek - there might be a few detours and digressions along the way. Still, every journey must end, and the alert reader will be happy to note the grocers kindly phoning back home to report on the adventurer's progress. Back home again, tired and thrilled with victory, and a reward of cocoa WITH MILK as the capper for the event.
The illustrations are really what makes this book. It's like Rockwell illustrated a picture book. Slightly tongue-in-cheek, laser focus on the simple joys of life and of a mythological "simpler time" in the past, a keen childs'-eye-viewpoint, and bright colors and traditional lines that manage to not be garish or overdone.
Really beautiful, and perfect for a storytime for our blizzard-less southern kids.
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