Snow Day (Step into Reading, Step 2, paper) [Paperback]

Corinne Demas Bliss (Author)

Book Description

Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up | Series: Step into Reading

Emily loves the snow, but hates snowballs, and it looks as if there's going to be a snow day tomorrow! Is Emily headed for disaster when the other kids begin to plan a big snowball fight, or will a friend come to her rescue and make it the best snow day ever?  

Editorial Reviews

From School Library Journal

Grade 1-3-Because of a snow day, Emily has extra time to decide on a topic for her school report. She invites her new friend from California over to play, and Marietta suggests that they make a snow town to prevent the neighborhood boys from throwing snowballs at them. In this easy reader set in 18-point type, Bliss uses short sentence structure and repetition to describe the classmates as they make a snow fort, snow town, snow money, and even a snow restaurant with spaghetti and snowballs. Emily finally decides that snow is a topic worthy of a school report. Readers will enjoy the turn from throwing snowballs to a cooperative arrangement due to the cleverness of a child who has never experienced winter. Poydar's colorful illustrations show a multiethnic gathering of friends enjoying the day off from school. Beginning readers who are ready for longer tales than Roy McKie and P. D. Eastman's Snow (Beginner, 1962) will take to this day-off-from-school story with as much eagerness as an official snow day.
Blair Christolon, Prince William Public Library System, Manassas, VA
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

From the Inside Flap

Emily loves the snow, but hates snowballs, and it looks as if there's going to be a snow day tomorrow! Is Emily headed for disaster when the other kids begin to plan a big snowball fight, or will a friend come to her rescue and make it the best snow day ever?  

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 5 and up
  
• Paperback: 48 pages
• Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers (October 13, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0679882227
• ISBN-13: 978-0679882220
• Product Dimensions: 8.7 x 5.6 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,661,529 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Corinne Demas is the author of two collections of short stories, three novels, a memoir, a collection of poetry, a play, and numerous books for children. She is Professor of English at Mount Holyoke College and a fiction editor of the Massachusetts Review. Before the year 2000, she published her books under the name Corinne Demas Bliss.

Corinne grew up in New York City, in Stuyvesant Town, the subject of her memoir, "Eleven Stories High: Growing Up in Stuyvesant Town 1948-1968". She attended Hunter College High School, graduated from Tufts University, and completed a Ph.D. in English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. She lived in Pittsburgh for a number of years, teaching at the University of Pittsburgh and at Chatham College.

She lives with her family in Western Massachusetts and spends the summer on Cape Cod. You will find more information at her website: www.corinnedemas.com

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Cute and clever book about friendship and a snow day., November 16, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Snow Day (Step into Reading, Step 2, paper) (Paperback)

I read this book to my 5 and 6 year old boys, and in spite of the fact that it is about two girls, they listened to every word and laughed a lot. We first read "The Shortest Kid in the World" by the same author, which they equally enjoyed. The characters in both books are the same; clever and funny stories about friendship and overcoming certain childhood insecurities. Great books for boys and girls alike - especially emerging young readers. I will read these both to my son's first grade class.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Girls can be empowered by Snow Days, February 2, 2008

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Corinne H. Smith (Athol, MA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Snow Day (Step Into Reading : a Step 2 Book) (Hardcover)

Emily is hoping for a Snow Day tomorrow so she doesn't have to figure out what topic to choose for a report for class. But with snow comes -- unfortunately -- boys armed with snowballs. Emily's classmate, Marietta, figures out her own purposeful way around that situation. An interesting twist to the typical Snow Day scenario that should prove fun for young Step 2 Beginning Readers.