City of Snow: The Great Blizzard of 1888

by Linda Oatman High and Linda Oatman-High

Book Overview

"It was Sunday morning, March 11, 1888, and rain was falling, spraying a steady tempest from heaven."With spring just around the corner, New Yorkers have no reason to suspect that one of the United... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802789102
• ISBN13: 9780802789105
• Release Date: October 2004
• Publisher: Walker & Company
• Length: 28 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 9.3" x 10.8"
• Age Range: 4 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3

Customer Reviews

We enjoy this book a lot

We received this book as a gift, and our son, now almost 7, has enjoyed hearing us read this to him, on and off, for a couple of years now. I'm a former English teacher, and while this book's poetry won't be confused with the works of Wallace Stevens or Robert Frost, it is easily a cut above the standard kiddie fare. In addition to traditional end-rhymes, the author also uses many different rhyming devices - notably consonance, assonance, and alliteration - to tell the story of one girl's experience during the Great Blizzard of 1888. This has lead to some good questions about how people lived in 1888, the importance of weather, and the things people used to do for fun. This is very ambitious for a children's book, and frankly, I find it a welcome break from the Dr. Suess "one fish, two fish" style that everyone else seems to favor. Nice illustrations, too. If you are tired of the other children's titles that constantly make the rounds, give this story a try.