A big bed for Little Snow

First Title Value for Searching:

Personal Author:

Lin, Grace

Edition:

First edition.

Physical Description:

1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 22 cm.

Genre:

Bedtime stories.

Summary:

When winter comes, Mommy makes a soft bed for Little Snow to sleep on, but each night he cannot resist jumping on the bed, causing tiny feathers to fly down.

Subject Term:

Snow -- Juvenile fiction

Beds -- Juvenile fiction.

Mother and child -- Juvenile fiction

Audience/Lexile:

P-3.

AD 430 L

Publication Info:

New York ; Boston : Little, Brown and Company, 2019.

Subject:

Snow -- Juvenile fiction

Beds -- Juvenile fiction.

Mother and child -- Juvenile fiction

Bedtime stories.

Beds and bedsteads

Bedsteads

SAILS ISBN:

9780316478366

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A companion to the Caldecott Honor book A Big Mooncake for Little Star!

A heartwarming and tender picture book introducing readers to their first snow, from award-winning, bestselling author-illustrator Grace Lin.
When it was quiet, Little Snow grinned and then jumped, jumped, jumped!
Little Snow loves the new big, soft bed Mommy made him for the long, cold winter nights. But Mommy says this bed is for sleeping, not jumping! What happens when he can't resist jump, jump, jumping on his new fluffy, bouncy bed?
Bestselling and award-winning author Grace Lin artfully introduces young readers to their first snow through striking illustrations and heartwarming moments.

Reviews (5)

School Library Journal Review

PreS-Gr 1--When Little Snow's mother makes him a big, round bed filled with warm feathers, the boy cannot resist jumping on it despite his Mommy's warning, "Remember…this bed is for sleeping, not jumping." Though he nods in agreement, every time his mom leaves the room, the mischievous tyke pounces. Little by little, tiny feathers escape until one day, a particularly energetic bounce produces a large tear creating an avalanche. "What a lot of feathers fell that day!" A double-spread reveals a panorama of snow-capped buildings with family-filled windows marveling at the snow-filled sky. When his mother notices the deflated bed, she smiles indulgently as the clever child points out that he's saved her the trouble of emptying the old feathers; she need only replace them next year. Both mother and child wear white pajamas with soft blue snowflakes against a stark white background. The plump, round bed is also light blue with a matching blanket and a little brown stuffed toy dachshund that serves as both pillow and cuddly. The endpapers feature white birds in flight against a pale blue sky. This heartwarming story offers a fanciful explanation of snow while capturing the love and playfulness between a mother and son. VERDICT A simple, sweet choice for a winter toddler storytime, bound to be a bedtime favorite.--Barbara Auerbach, Cairo Public Library, NY

Publisher's Weekly Review

This companion to A Big Mooncake for Little Star, for which Lin won a Caldecott Honor, stars a boy, Little Snow. As his mother fills his puffy, gray-blue bed with feathers at winter's start, she reminds him that "this bed is for sleeping, not jumping." Naturally, the minute she leaves ("Little Snow listened to Mommy's footsteps fade away") and anytime she is absent, the child leaps onto his cloudlike bunk. When he does, "Tiny feathers squeezed out of his bed and fluttered down." After a season's worth of jumping, Little Snow springs so high and lands so hard on the bed that it tears, spilling the feathers. The next spread shows where all those feathers end up; though it's not too hard to guess where that might be, the revelation charms (and reveals a glimpse of Little Snow's predecessor). Classically drafted paintings of the child leaping and bouncing with his stuffed dachshund convey the joy of release and weightlessness. Lin skillfully uses the folded and creased snowflake shapes of the mother and child's matching pajamas to convey the contours of their bodies underneath, giving their clothes a wonderfully otherworldly look. A beguiling contemporary origin story. Ages 4--8. Agent: Rebecca Sherman, Writers House. (Oct.)

Horn Book Review

Lin takes readers to the sky once again in this follow-up to Caldecott Honor Book A Big Mooncake for Little Star (rev. 7/18). Whereas a black night sky dominated Mooncakes palette and a girl among the stars was the mischief-maker, here our protagonist is an impish boy at home amidst the clouds. When winter began, Little Snows mommy made a big new bed just for him. The bed, in cornflower blue (the illustrations main accent color, with warm browns, blacks, and grays), looks a lot like a cloud; and though Mom tells him its for sleeping, he gives in to temptation after she departs and jumps gleefully on the puffy and big and bouncy thing. As he leaps, feathers flutter down, and eventually he rips the bed. We turn the page to see an apartment complex rooftop covered in snow: What a lot of feathers fell that day! Lins illustrations are spare but expressive, with copious white space used thoughtfully and deliberately. The boys pajamas are outlined by the negative space around the snowflakes that adorn them and not by any paint strokes, for example, giving the childand the cloud-bedall the focus. The repeated use of thump, thump, thump for the mothers inevitable return (Uh-oh!) brings an exhilarating air of discovery to this already exuberant story, to which boisterous listeners and readers will surely relate. What child doesnt want to jump on the bed? Playful type placement and varying font size accentuate the joy of the jumping. A wondrous, wintry read. julie Danielson September/October 2019 p.60(c) Copyright 2019. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

Kirkus Review

At the beginning of winter, Little Snow's mother fills his big, sky-blue bed with feathers and reminds him that it is "for sleeping, not jumping."Of course, Little Snow cannot resist, and whenever Mommy isn't around, he jumps and jumps. Each time, some feathers fall from his cloud-shaped bed. At one point, he jumps extra high and the bed tears, releasing a sky full of feathers that falls in a blizzard of snow upon a city's rooftops. In what is clearly a companion to Lin's Caldecott Honor book A Big Mooncake for Little Star (2018), this book's color palette consists of a solid white negative space instead of black, and light-blue snowflakes adorn Little Snow's white pajamas. As before, a mischievous little protagonist with Asian features is the cause of a natural phenomenon that readers will recognize with satisfaction. The story is clever but simple, without the extra layers of cultural and natural complexity that made Lin's previous book so exceptional. Lin's gouache illustrations are an echo of that book as well, with Little Snow's pajama edges similarly bleeding into the background. It's still visually intriguing, but this time around, everything feels more stark than luminous. The most delightful spread is the most colorful one, as the snow falls over city buildings full of diverse children peering out the windows, enchanted.A sweet and clever modern myth that may send readers back to its lauded companion. (Picture book. 4-8) Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.

Booklist Review

At the start of winter, Little Snow's mother makes him a new bed. It's warm and filled with fluffy feathers, and Mommy knowingly reminds him that the bed is for sleeping, not jumping. Like all mischievous children, Little Snow cannot resist defying his mother, and as soon as he is alone, he does exactly what she said not to: jump, jump, jump! With each jump, a puff of feathers escapes from a split corner of the bouncy, cloud-like bed, but whenever he hears his mother coming, he pretends to be asleep. So it goes all winter, with Little Snow releasing more and more feathers until one day they're all gone and at just the right moment a secret is revealed. Lin's use of color, pattern, and white space stylistically similar to her Caldecott Honor Book A Big Mooncake for Little Star (2018) elegantly foreshadow the surprise. Lin might be onto something with her inventive visual approach, and her fans will appreciate this heartwarming tale of human nature.--Amina Chaudhri Copyright 2010 Booklist