The Snowball

by Jennifer Armstrong, Jean Pidgeon (Illustrator)

Watch out below! Here comes a giant snowball tumbling down a hill, picking up everything--and everybody--in its path!  

Illustrated in full color.

Genres: Childrens, Picture Books

32 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1996

About the author

Jennifer Armstrong learned to read and write in Switzerland, in a small school for English speaking children on the shores of Lake Zurich. The school library had no librarian and no catalog – just shelves of interesting books. She selected books on her own, read what she could, and made up the rest. It was perfect. As a result, she made her career choice – to become an author – in first grade. When she and her family returned to the U.S. she discovered that not all children wrote stories and read books, and that not all teachers thought reading real books was important. Nevertheless, she was undaunted. Within a year of leaving college she was a free-lance ghost writer for a popular juvenile book series, and before long published her first trade novel, Steal Away, which won her a Golden Kite Honor for fiction.

More than fifty additional novels and picture books followed, and before long she also tried her hand at nonfiction, winning an Orbis Pictus Award and a Horn Book Honor for her first nonfiction book, Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World. In late 2003 she will travel to the South Pole with the National Science Foundation to do research for a book on ice.

Reviews

[Rainz ❤️rainnbooks❤️(on a break)]

Liked the simple concept and lovely illustrations ☺️

[Mykenna Baker]

This book is very cute and very short. It Is a good poetry book and has a lot of good rhyming words in it. This book would be perfect to do a read aloud with that was over rhyming. Or it would also be good to give to a kid to read that was struggling with rhyming because it is very easy to read.

[John]

I like this book because the ball rolls and rolls and rolls and rolls until it's the biggest it could be, until poof! And at the end, it's so silly: she's scared because she sees a bunny. Ha ha ha.

[Amy]

3.5 stars

[Dolly]

This is a fun, rhyming tale that is silly and repetitive enough to keep the interest of young readers. Our oldest read this one to us and she didn't stumble too much on any of the words, which is impressive since she usually wants a lot of help.

[Amanda]

Another fun 1st level reading book. Very appropriate given that we are having a big snow today and DS had his first snowball fight! He wasn't interested in reading it to us, but it was funny and he seemed to enjoy listening to it.

[Ebono1]

good story for beginning readers, talks about different seasons and what to expect, especially in the winter.

[Sharon]

Purchased for the plane trip to Atlanta. This was one of the first books Danny learned to read on his own.

[Vidya]

My son who is 5 years old, liked to imagine the snowball growing bigger and bigger as it came rolling down the hill and then breaking into bits. He enjoyed the book

[Jane]

This is a great Step into Reading book because it is a really fun story. It's very simple but my child really enjoyed seeing who the snowball would pick up next!

[Cws]

BR-Arm

[Kelly]

Decent rhyming and funny pictures. A typical, predictable easy reader book.

[Kate Hastings]

RL 100