The Snow Man: A True Story

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Meet the man living alone in the mountains whose hobby of measuring snowfall led to a global understanding of climate change in this nonfiction picture book from celebrated mother-son team Jonah and Jeanette Winter.

When billy barr came to the mountains as a young man, his only companions were a skunk and a pine marten. He needed something to fill the hours. So he began measuring the snow that fell. Day after day, and year after year, he measured.

As he grew older, he noticed something: the snow was disappearing. It arrived later, melted sooner, and there wasnt as much of it. He shared his records with a local scientist, who shared them with other scientists, until his measurements were used by scientists all over the world studying climate change. Thanks to his curiosity, groundbreaking data was gathered that still helps us today!

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Jonah Winter is the award-winning author of more than forty nonfiction picture books that promote environmental awareness and social and racial justice. Among them areThe Snow Man;The Little Owl & the Big Tree: AChristmas Story;Oil;The Secret Project;Ruth Bader Ginsburg: The Case of R.B.G. vs. Inequality;My Name is James Madison Hemings;Barack;The Founding Fathers!; andLillians Right to Vote, a Jane Addams Childrens Book Award recipient and Kirkus Prize finalist.

Jeanette Winter is a celebrated picture book creator whose acclaimed works includeThe Snow Man;The Little Owl & the Big Tree: AChristmas Story;Oil;The Secret Project; andDiego, all written by Jonah Winter, and her ownBiblioburro: A True Storyfrom Colombia;Nasreens Secret School: A True Story from Afghanistan; andOur House Is on Fire: Greta Thunbergs Callto Save the Planet, which has been translated into twenty-one languages.