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Snow: Ready-to-Read Level 1
Level 1: Starting to Read
• Simple stories
• Increased vocabulary
• Longer sentences
Everyone loves snow! It's fun to play in and makes wonderful snowmen. But where does snow come from? The answer is at your fingertips. Just open this book and read about the wonders of snow....
• Simple stories
• Increased vocabulary
• Longer sentences
Everyone loves snow! It's fun to play in and makes wonderful snowmen. But where does snow come from? The answer is at your fingertips. Just open this book and read about the wonders of snow....
32 pages, Paperback
First published November 1, 2003
About the author
Marion Dane Bauer
162 books187 followersMarion Dane Bauer is the author of more than one hundred books for young people, ranging from novelty and picture books through early readers, both fiction and nonfiction, books on writing, and middle-grade and young-adult novels. She has won numerous awards, including several Minnesota Book Awards, a Jane Addams Peace Association Award for RAIN OF FIRE, an American Library Association Newbery Honor Award for ON MY HONOR, a number of state children's choice awards and the Kerlan Award from the University of Minnesota for the body of her work.
She is also the editor of and a contributor to the ground-breaking collection of gay and lesbian short stories, Am I Blue? Coming Out from the Silence.
Marion was one of the founding faculty and the first Faculty Chair for the Master of Fine Arts in Writing for Children and Young Adults program at Vermont College of Fine Arts. Her writing guide, the American Library Association Notable WHAT'S YOUR STORY? A YOUNG PERSON'S GUIDE TO WRITING FICTION, is used by writers of all ages. Her books have been translated into more than a dozen different languages.
She has six grandchildren and lives in St. Paul, Minnesota, with her partner and a cavalier King Charles spaniel, Dawn.
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INTERVIEW WITH MARION DANE BAUER
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Q. What brought you to a career as a writer?
A. I seem to have been born with my head full of stories. For almost as far back as I can remember, I used most of my unoccupied moments--even in school when I was supposed to be doing other "more important" things--to make up stories in my head. I sometimes got a notation on my report card that said, "Marion dreams." It was not a compliment. But while the stories I wove occupied my mind in a very satisfying way, they were so complex that I never thought of trying to write them down. I wouldn't have known where to begin. So though I did all kinds of writing through my teen and early adult years--letters, journals, essays, poetry--I didn't begin to gather the craft I needed to write stories until I was in my early thirties. That was also when my last excuse for not taking the time to sit down to do the writing I'd so long wanted to do started first grade.
Q. And why write for young people?
A. Because I get my creative energy in examining young lives, young issues. Most people, when they enter adulthood, leave childhood behind, by which I mean that they forget most of what they know about themselves as children. Of course, the ghosts of childhood still inhabit them, but they deal with them in other forms--problems with parental authority turn into problems with bosses, for instance--and don't keep reaching back to the original source to try to fix it, to make everything come out differently than it did the first time. Most children's writers, I suspect, are fixers. We return, again and again, usually under the cover of made-up characters, to work things through. I don't know that our childhoods are necessarily more painful than most. Every childhood has pain it, because life has pain in it at every stage. The difference is that we are compelled to keep returning to the source.
Q. You write for a wide range of ages. Do you write from a different place in writing for preschoolers than for young adolescents?
A. In a picture book or board book, I'm always writing from the womb of the family, a place that--while it might be intruded upon by fears, for instance--is still, ultimately, safe and nurturing. That's what my own early childhood was like, so it's easy for me to return to those feelings and to recreate them.
When I write for older readers, I'm writing from a very different experience. My early adolescence, especially, was a time of deep alienation, mostly from my peers but in some ways from my family as well. And so I write my older stories out of that pain, that longing for connection. A story has to have a problem at its core. No struggle
She is also the editor of and a contributor to the ground-breaking collection of gay and lesbian short stories, Am I Blue? Coming Out from the Silence.
Marion was one of the founding faculty and the first Faculty Chair for the Master of Fine Arts in Writing for Children and Young Adults program at Vermont College of Fine Arts. Her writing guide, the American Library Association Notable WHAT'S YOUR STORY? A YOUNG PERSON'S GUIDE TO WRITING FICTION, is used by writers of all ages. Her books have been translated into more than a dozen different languages.
She has six grandchildren and lives in St. Paul, Minnesota, with her partner and a cavalier King Charles spaniel, Dawn.
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INTERVIEW WITH MARION DANE BAUER
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Q. What brought you to a career as a writer?
A. I seem to have been born with my head full of stories. For almost as far back as I can remember, I used most of my unoccupied moments--even in school when I was supposed to be doing other "more important" things--to make up stories in my head. I sometimes got a notation on my report card that said, "Marion dreams." It was not a compliment. But while the stories I wove occupied my mind in a very satisfying way, they were so complex that I never thought of trying to write them down. I wouldn't have known where to begin. So though I did all kinds of writing through my teen and early adult years--letters, journals, essays, poetry--I didn't begin to gather the craft I needed to write stories until I was in my early thirties. That was also when my last excuse for not taking the time to sit down to do the writing I'd so long wanted to do started first grade.
Q. And why write for young people?
A. Because I get my creative energy in examining young lives, young issues. Most people, when they enter adulthood, leave childhood behind, by which I mean that they forget most of what they know about themselves as children. Of course, the ghosts of childhood still inhabit them, but they deal with them in other forms--problems with parental authority turn into problems with bosses, for instance--and don't keep reaching back to the original source to try to fix it, to make everything come out differently than it did the first time. Most children's writers, I suspect, are fixers. We return, again and again, usually under the cover of made-up characters, to work things through. I don't know that our childhoods are necessarily more painful than most. Every childhood has pain it, because life has pain in it at every stage. The difference is that we are compelled to keep returning to the source.
Q. You write for a wide range of ages. Do you write from a different place in writing for preschoolers than for young adolescents?
A. In a picture book or board book, I'm always writing from the womb of the family, a place that--while it might be intruded upon by fears, for instance--is still, ultimately, safe and nurturing. That's what my own early childhood was like, so it's easy for me to return to those feelings and to recreate them.
When I write for older readers, I'm writing from a very different experience. My early adolescence, especially, was a time of deep alienation, mostly from my peers but in some ways from my family as well. And so I write my older stories out of that pain, that longing for connection. A story has to have a problem at its core. No struggle
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December 20, 2021
"Snow dresses the trees,
Snow covers the grass,
Snow keeps the flowers warm through the long winter,
While the winter is here, Snow makes the cold world beautiful and so much fun"
Cute picture book with bright wintery illustrations,
Loved it 💙🤍🌨❄☃️❄🌨🤍💙
20.12.2021
Snow covers the grass,
Snow keeps the flowers warm through the long winter,
While the winter is here, Snow makes the cold world beautiful and so much fun"
Cute picture book with bright wintery illustrations,
Loved it 💙🤍🌨❄☃️❄🌨🤍💙
20.12.2021
November 11, 2019
Author: Marion Dane Bauer
Title: Snow
Awards N/A
Summary: Snow is a cute book that explains in detail where snow come from and what it does for the environment. Students get a informational waltz through winter and what happens during this very important season.
Review / Application: Snow is a great lesson of "Important Details" with Kindergarten and First Grade Students. The object is for students to explore the text in a read aloud fashion and find answers to teacher generated questions about the text. Students learn how to find answers to questions in the text itself. This is a necessary skill for later second graders as it relates to note taking and other reference writing.
Title: Snow
Awards N/A
Summary: Snow is a cute book that explains in detail where snow come from and what it does for the environment. Students get a informational waltz through winter and what happens during this very important season.
Review / Application: Snow is a great lesson of "Important Details" with Kindergarten and First Grade Students. The object is for students to explore the text in a read aloud fashion and find answers to teacher generated questions about the text. Students learn how to find answers to questions in the text itself. This is a necessary skill for later second graders as it relates to note taking and other reference writing.
November 15, 2017
This was a very simple book that I would only read aloud to kindergarteners and maybe first graders. I loved how the book included some facts about snow at the end. I could use this book as a science lesson or to read at the beginning of winter.
February 11, 2019
This is a good toddler book. Great for teaching kids where snow comes from. My daughter asked " how do dat" Because she didn't know how the snow got here so it's an easy way to teach about that while keeping it short simple and fun for the younger ones.
October 11, 2017
a great level 1 book. it tells the fun aspects of snow, but included a page of educational tidbits as well.
October 12, 2018
Appealing illustrations elevate this simple reader- could work okay as a read-aloud for younger kids. Recommended for ages 3-6.
November 2, 2018
good easy read for beginners.
January 5, 2019
AR 2.0
January 28, 2019
I liked the drawings best but the words were very good also.
January 15, 2020
Boring.
February 8, 2022
This is a super book for beginning readers, it's very informative, and the art work is fantastic!
Bravo Marion Dane Bauer & John Wallace!
Bravo Marion Dane Bauer & John Wallace!
January 11, 2023
Simple to read, but there's very real science in this book! The science of snow and water crystals is presented in a kid-friendly way with delightful illustrations.
February 22, 2023
This beginning reader explains the phenomena of snow in age appropriate and easy to understand language.
Facts about snow are included at the back of the book.
Facts about snow are included at the back of the book.
April 10, 2023
We liked how factual this was and even I learned new things.
December 9, 2023
Do you like the snow??
January 1, 2024
It was a fun book. I didn't actually know there was one speck of dust on every flake.
June 12, 2024
A short ready to read book all about snow!
August 24, 2016
This is a ready to read level 1 with simple words and simpe sentences BUT worded very nicely telling a story that keeps a little ones attention. Later in the story the author teaches about snow and snowflakes and does it in a way that the child doesn't know they are learning. Then in the back they included true to life facts. Very nice young reader book.
November 25, 2020
This book is so sweet and short. It's the perfect book to learn how to read on. This book is short and yet there is a sweet story of how snow is created. My kids love looking and reading this book and learning about snow. The illustrations in this book are amazing and colorful. Check out this book for your kiddos.
March 12, 2014
I actually liked this. The illustrations are nice, and the revelations about snow are interesting and easy to understand. This is a great science book to be used for weather (snow) and the seasons (winter). There are many scientific facts about snow.
October 15, 2014
I can't wait for winter and SNOW!!! So I got this book.
It just looked like a regular story but it had so many facts in it. And I could read a lot of it (except the page of facts that was ALL words at the end). But this one is great.
And I hope we get a blizzard in our new house!!
It just looked like a regular story but it had so many facts in it. And I could read a lot of it (except the page of facts that was ALL words at the end). But this one is great.
And I hope we get a blizzard in our new house!!
October 1, 2008
1st - 3rd grade
January 11, 2009
fun science-based easy reader...cataloged in non-fiction. explains formation of snow as well as the season druing which it falls.
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May 19, 2009JEAR2-Bau
September 21, 2011
I actually liked this. The illustrations are nice, and the revelations about snow are interesting and easy to understand.
January 10, 2013
A nice book to share with young ones, the "facts" about snow and winter.
January 25, 2013
This is a great science book to be used for weather (snow) and the seasons (winter). There are many scientific facts about snow.
June 27, 2011
Level 1 science book about snow. Easy to read and easy for children to understand.
December 21, 2012
Great early reader on snow.
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