Martha Stewart meets Play with Your Food in this nostalgic and playful book about everyone's favorite winter pastime. Illustrated throughout with four-color photographs, Snowmen offers inspiration and easy-to-follow instructions for constructing fantastic winter wonderlands. Using food and other simple props found in every home, anyone can build these delightful snow charactersfrom classics like Frosty and Santa to clever originals like Snowby Dick the Great White Whale and Jackie SnOw (with kerchief and dark glasses). Carve an Arctic Hearth from a snowbank or build a Winter Palace fit for a Snow Queen. A section on "no-snow" men will inspire the snow-deprived with recipes for Marshmallow Snowmen, Macaroon Men, and beautiful Keepsake Cards to commemorate your cool constructions. Spiral bound with laminated pages that make it perfect for use in the field, Snowmen delivers plenty of fun ways to enjoy winter's glitter.
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All over the world, down through history, people have turned "bad weather into great sculpture. Snowmen are hip, they're trendy, you could even say they're cool." But snowmen are the least of what you can build, given snow, time, and a copy of this fantastic how-to book! Build anything--or anyone--from Snowby Dick to PicasSnow to the snow-free delicious Meringue Man; the winter world is your oyster. This delightful little book celebrates the joys of the white stuff, and provides "recipes" for dozens of witty, beautiful, and impressive polar creations. Emphasizing use of natural materials (pine needles and cones, twigs, icicles, pebbles) and everyday household objects (toothpicks, wigs, pot lids, eggplants), the authors encourage sculptors to seek inspiration and have fun. Hard to imagine how anyone could not have fun creating a real, candlelit arctic hearth. Or an adorable, albeit prickly, porcupine. Has that artistic temperament turned sluggish due to cold and hunger? Try a couple of white chocolate-coated marshmallow "snowmen" in a cup of hot cocoa. Frankie Frankeny's wonderfully helpful photos of all these marvelous creations are interspersed with old black-and-white family shots of kids being kids in the snow. Don't wait for the first blizzard to hit--start planning a snow extravaganza now! (Ages 3 to 103) --Emilie Coulter
About the Author
Leslie Jonath is an editor and writer living in San Francisco. She is the author of Postmark Paris.
Peter Cole is a San Francisco- based sculptor and teacher. He has written a handbook on soap-box derby construction, and he used to drive a school bus.
Frankie Frankeny is a San Francisco-based photographer whose work has illustrated many books, including Wookiee Cookies (0-8118-2184-6) and The Christmas Cookie Book (0-8118-3095-0).
Peter Cole is a San Francisco- based sculptor and teacher. He has written a handbook on soap-box derby construction, and he used to drive a school bus.
Frankie Frankeny is a San Francisco-based photographer whose work has illustrated many books, including Wookiee Cookies (0-8118-2184-6) and The Christmas Cookie Book (0-8118-3095-0).
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A Snowy Inspiration For Your Winter Window Heart View,
By Bernadette Nagler (Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Snowmen: Creatures, Crafts, and Other Winter Projects (Hardcover-spiral)
Last year, I moved back "up north" with my son after nine years in sunny Florida. I had forgotten what a "warm" feeling you get while snuggled in a warm home basking in the beauty of the snow outside. We created funny little mounds of snow on fences and window sills which delighted up even more once back inside our toasty haven. We enjoyed the snow silhouettes created by nature herself in the form of tree angels. This delightful book, of which I purchased three alone as gifts, has inspired me to a new winter wonderway of welcoming the new millenium, creating snow art. There are such clever ideas for bringing snow joy into our lives in this book. My twelve year old son was so enthralled by the book that he said he would pay for half of it. Imagine that? With all the books available for making indoor Christmas crafts, this book reminds us of the joy of working in and with nature, all the while reflecting on how wonderful it will look and feel while snuggled back inside. A wonderfully creative and joyful book. With high regard,
10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
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A winter wonderland of fun,
By Tom Williams "Marketing Maven" (Albany, NY) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Snowmen: Creatures, Crafts, and Other Winter Projects (Hardcover-spiral)
When the snow starts to fall, and the winter blues get you down...pick up this book and have some fun. This book provides inspiration as well as step-by-step instructions to create wonderful snow creations. The photographs are great, and the pages are plastic coated so you can take the book outside in the snow. As the author of Aha! - 10 Ways To Free Your Creative Spirit and Find Your Great Ideas, I am always in search of fun books to add to my "inspiration library". "Snowmen" has a place on my shelves... and with the kids in the yard.
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GENIUS!,
By camella (AUSTIN, TX) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Snowmen: Creatures, Crafts, and Other Winter Projects (Hardcover-spiral)
THIS BOOK IS SO CHOCK FULL OF CREATIVITY! KIDS CAN'T PUT IT DOWN! AND THERE IS A LITTLE SOMETHING IN IT FOR THE ADULT AS WELL!! ENJOY!!!
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WHO WOULD HAVE THOUGHT that snow, the precipitation of small white ice crystals formed directly from the water vapor of the air at a temperature of less than thirty-two degrees, could inspire such feats of artistry? Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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WHO WOULD HAVE THOUGHT that snow, the precipitation of small white ice crystals formed directly from the water vapor of the air at a temperature of less than thirty-two degrees, could inspire such feats of artistry? Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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- Postmark Paris: A Story in Stamps by Leslie Jonath on page 80
- Christmas Trees: Fun and Festive Ideas by Leslie Jonath in Back Matter
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