Title: The Snow Day
Author: Komako Sakai
Illustrator: Komako Sakai

Reading Level: Ages 4-8

Hardcover: 32 pages

Publisher: Arthur A. Levine Books (January 1, 2009)
Language: English

ISBN-10: 0545013216

 What do you do when you find out school is canceled because of the snow? Well in the book  The Snow Day a little rabbit awakes to find snow is falling and it will not stop, the buses are stuck and it looks like no one is going anywhere, for little rabbit this means its time to play, giggle, and make snow monsters outside. This book shows you want it would be like if you were stuck inside all day, mom can not go to the store and your father is stuck in the airport. Its a great book to get your mind thinking of things to do when you do not have to go to school. It is a great book to get children to use their imaginations on what they would do if school closed because of the snow.  The illustration in this book go along great with the words. You can you the illustrations to tell your own story and create your own ideas of what the little rabbit is doing own his snow day. 


   There are many different literacy elements to be found in this story. The setting of this story takes place in a urban high rise and I feel that its a great way to show children that there are many different places that people live. The story is based in first person, where the sentences are consists and flow in rhythms and interesting details. The Characters in the story are little rabbit and his mother. Little rabbits father is stuck in the airport and you can feel a whole family connection and sadness that the father can not be home with his family. 
     
    This book is a great to do many different lessons on. As a teacher I would do a lesson on getting the children involved in the setting and the plot. I would want to read this story when it was winter our and brainstorm ideas with the children on what they could do if school is closed because of the snow.  I would also use this book as a way for children to write their own stories. I would use the pictures in the story and ask children to write what they think is going on in each picture. This story is a great story to read to a class and get them to use their imagination on what they would do if school was closed because of the snow.