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Heart of a Snowman

Have you ever thought about how snowmen are made? (No, not scientifically….with cold temperatures and atmospheric moisture….but magically?)

Open up your imagination as you read Heart of a Snowman by Eugene Yelchin and Mary Kuryla.

A little boy named Owen can’t figure out why the elaborate snowmen he creates every Christmas melt away a few days later. Can there be a way to preserve that jolly man made of snow? And if he must melt and disappear, where does he go?

Very late on Christmas Eve night, Owen is whisked off to an adventure of huge proportions. He somehow lands upon a “snow ship” of sorts and travels to what seems to be a snowman factory!

This is where my son instantly became hooked. Though he’s only five, anything dealing with factories, processes, and production peaks his interest….and when you mix this with surreal snowman fantasy? It’s pretty much perfect.

Animals of all kinds appear working here and there as the factory is explored and toured. Yet something in the process is missing. Something only Owen can provide….something only he can show them. He has the key to….the heart of a snowman.

You can purchase this beautifully written and illustrated book from HarperCollins for $16.99, or wherever your favorite books are sold. I’m sure you’ll agree with us that this is no ordinary book about snowmen and winter!

Win it! Thanks to HarperCollins, one of you can win a copy of Heart of a Snowman! Just tell me another HarperCollins title you’d love to read….during the Christmas holidays, perhaps. I’ll close the contest next Thursday, November 19th, 2009, when I’ll announce all of the winners from the Cozy Christmas Reads event! Sorry; US entries only. Good luck!

CONTEST IS NOW CLOSED.

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Christmas in the Barn and A Very Marley Christmas would both be big hits in our household. Thanks.

Another book we would love to read from HarperCollins Publishers is:

Christmas Cookies
Bite-Size Holiday Lessons
By Amy Krouse Rosenthal
Illustrated by Jane Dyer

The Best Christmas Pageant Ever

Christmas at Stony Creek would be one I would like to have

a christmas caroline by kyle smith!

The Receipe Club!
bebemiqui82(at)yahoo(dot)com

Christmas in the Manger Board book

amanda_agema@hotmail.com

I’d like to read The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman.

I would love to read “The Happiness Project” Or, “Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun” By Gretchen Rubin

I would love to read Christmas Day in the Morning to my boys!

Christmas cookies looks like a book that I would like to read to my class!

If You Take A Mouse To the Movies

I think Christmas Cookies sounds great.

I think my duaghter would like Bella Sara

The Best Christmas Pageant Ever (our church put this play on last year!)

I would like to donate Biscuit’s Pet & Play Christmas to our school library. the kids love Biscuit.

I’d like to read- Angels ……per the season to my girls…

The Long winter by Laura Ingalls Wilder would be charming for us in Ohio’s Snowbelt!

I’d like to read The Night Before Christmas Board Book to my son!

I was always an Amelia Bedelia fan as a little girl and it looks like they are creating a new series of Young Amelia Bedelia! I would love to read these books!

Another book we would love to read is the

A Very Marley Christmas!

We would actually love to read Merry Christmas, Splat by Scotton or Goldilicious because my boys thought Pinkalicious was hilarious!

The book Christmas Cookies looks cute.

I really would like to read Goldylicious with my daughter

Christmas cookies sounds like a great read! Thanks!

We would love If You Give a Mouse a Cookie.

We’d love the “Where the Wild Things Are”- my son just saw the movie- thanks!

My daughter would love The Berenstain Bears Trim the Tree

We love If You Give A Mouse A Cookie.

Another snowman book we haven’t read yet is Little Critter: Just a Snowman By Mercer Mayer. My daughter loves the Little Critter stories.

This sounds like a wonderful story. We’d love to read A Very Marley Christmas too!

We want to read Goldilicious!

janemaritz at yahoo dot com

We posted about this at Winning Readings: http://winningreadings.blogspot.com/2009/11/heart-of-snowman.html

I love snowmen – this is perfect for my son and I! I also love the Sam the Snowman

I think Where the Wild Things Are would be great for my son!

I would love to read Harper Collins’ The Visual Miscellaneum by David McCandless.

I found the book Walking the Bible (children’s edition) sounds fascinating.
wmmahaney(at)att(dot)net

I’d like to read the “Happiness Project”. thanks.

I think I would love to have Christmas cookies for my kids
plb8156@aol.com

Christmas in the Barn looks cute

I would like to read Christmas Cookies around the holidays.

moonfall looks interesting

Christmas Cookies looks cute

I’d love to have The Night Before Christmas.. we have a small book and need a update

I’d like to read Merry Christmas, Amelia Bedelia with my girls during the holidays. Thanks!

I’m really tempted to get the Christmas Cookies book — not that I need more books about baking This looks like a really sweet book!

I’d like to read The Christmas Pearl

The Happiness Project

I like How to talk to santa

The Christmas in the Barn book looks great. And another book I loved to read as a kid during Christmas was the Best Christmas Pageant Ever.

My daughter would love Lilly’s Big Day!

I would love to read Evidence of Murder
by Lisa Black.

Christmas cookies and Christmas in the Barn sounds like good ones to read.

My daughter loves all the Fancy Nancy books.

nancyecdavis AT bellsouth DOT net

I’d also love to read
Christmas Around the World
By Mary D. Lankford

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