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The Poky Little Puppy’s Wonderful Winter Day

The Poky Little Puppy’s Wonderful Winter Day by Jean Chandler, 1982.

This book is part of the Poky Little Puppy series of picture books from Little Golden Books.

The Poky Little Puppy is the last to wake up on this snowy day, seeing his brothers and sisters rushing outside to play as he starts his breakfast. When he finishes his breakfast and goes outside, he doesn’t see the other puppies, but there are children playing in the snow.

The Poky Little Puppy follows the puppy paws through the snow and finds his siblings. The other puppies go sliding now a hill together, but the Poky Little Puppy gets a ride on a child’s sled.

The Poky Little Puppy also tries to make a snow angel with a child and chases snowballs the children throw. He was the last puppy to start playing and the last to make it home to dinner because he is “poky” and arrives late to everything, but in the process, he had the most fun of everyone! (Although, he does fall asleep before eating his dessert.)

The book is available to borrow and read for free online through Internet Archive.

My Reaction

This is just a cute little story about the fun that a puppy has on a snowy day. I liked the message that the Poky Little Puppy has fun going through the day at his own pace and doing his own thing. Even though he isn’t always doing what his brothers and sisters are doing and sometimes trails behind them, he makes the most out of this fun, snowy day!

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The Snowy Day Mystery

Cam Jansen

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The Snowy Day Mystery by David A. Adler, 2004.

One snowy day, Cam Jansen and her friends are on the school bus outside of their school.  Because of the snow, a lot of parents have decided to drive their kids to school, and with all the extra cars, it’s difficult for the bus driver to pull up and let the kids out.  Cam and her friend, Eric, pass the time while they’re waiting with a memory game.

Their game proves useful later, when one of their teachers discovers that someone has stolen three computers from one of the classrooms.  There are footprints in the snow outside the classroom window, but the window was locked from the inside after the theft.  Whoever took the computers must have actually entered the school and passed them to someone outside.  But, computers are big and heavy.  How did they get them away without anyone seeing them?

Cam and Eric begin to investigate, and Danny, a classmate with a habit of telling really bad jokes, tags along.  Part of the solution to the mystery has to do with all of the extra cars in front of the school that morning.  The thieves’ car would have blended in with all of the others, except that they were doing something that none of the other cars were doing, something that Cam realizes that no car would have had a reason to do.  Cam saw the thieves leave herself and is later able to describe the car to the police, but the unusual thing about it doesn’t occur to her until she thinks about where the thieves parked their car.

The book is currently available online through Internet Archive.