Review-Snowmen All Year by Caralynn Buehner

With spring just a few days away, it is most likely that the tales of Frosty and Raymond Briggs's The Snowman will be sitting on our shelves until December. But what if there was a book about a snowman staying all year? In Snowmen all Year by Caralynn Buehner and illustrated by her husband, Mark Buehner (their  previous work includes Snowmen at Night and Snowmen at Christmas), a young boy wishes his snowman were magic and stay all year instead of melting at winter's end. What follows are whimsical and charming pictures of the boy and the snowman playing at the beach, watching fireworks, and trick-or-treating. The pictures are bright and kid-driven ( what kid wouldn't dream of playing chess while having slushies with a snowman?) and it's written in simple rhymes.  I'm actually thinking about using for next week's 2 and 3 year-old program as we say goodbye to winter and  welcome the sights and sounds of  spring.

Snowmen all Year by Caralynn Buehner
 Age level- 3 and up
Lexile:  750
Rating- ***** ( 5 stars)