The Smallest Snowflake
By (Author) Bernadette Watts
North-South Books
North-South Books
14th December 2022
20th September 2022
United States
Children
Fiction
823.92
Hardback
32
Width 216mm, Height 279mm
Follow your dreams in this heartwarming winter tale!
Every snowflake has a dream. While the other snowflakes boast about their plans to travel on to glamorous and far off destinations the most beautiful mountain in the world or atop the golden pinnacle of the jeweled dome of the castle, St. Basilthe smallest snowflake simply longs for someplace special . . . someplace warm. The snowflakes fly over oceans, parting ways over mountains and red roofed farms, until at last, the smallest snowflake finds her home. And when spring finally arrives with snowdrops and unexpected friendship she knows that she has fulfilled her destiny.
Bernadettes tender story transport readers with the magic of winter and the warmth of first spring.
...this is a lovely story to take children from winter to spring. It will inspire creative artwork, discussion, drama and story-writing. It is an ideal seasonal book
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So many different ways to share and talk about this lovely book.
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Bernadette Watts, known throughout Europe simply as Bernadette, has illustrated many dozens of folk- and fairy tales. Born in England, she loved to draw from childhood. She studied at the Maidstone Art School in Kent, UK and for some time was taught by Brian Wildsmith and David Hockney . Bernadettes many beautiful books include The Snow Queen and The Bremen Town Musicians. Bernadette finds her inspiration in nature. Today she lives and works in Kent. She has been illustrating for NorthSouth Books and NordSd Verlag since the beginning of her career fifty years ago.