Snow Dance Hardcover - 2008

"Snow, snow, snow all day.
Let a snow day come our way."

When Ruthie needs a day off from school, she hopes for a snow day. However, the weather is supposed to be clear. When her father tells her she would have to make the snow herself, Ruthie is struck by an idea. People dance for rain; why not a dance for snow? As she makes her way through another school day, she finds that everyone could use a day off. One by one, she shows them her dance. Thinking about the things they would rather be doing, they join her in singing the snow song and do the snow dance. Then they wait. The next morning, the city is blanketed in snow, and everyone gets a chance to savor their snow day.

Growing up outside Buffalo, New York, Peggy Thomas and her brother, illustrator Paul Facklam, did not have to wish too hard for snow, but the weather inspired them to create Snow Dance so that every child could enjoy a day off from school.

Peggy Thomas's love of nature also inspired her first book with Pelican, Joshua the Giant Frog. Thomas is a member of the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators, and she is a library associate and an instructor for the Institute of Children's Literature.

Paul Facklam is an elementary-school art teacher in Middleport, New York.