One snowy day, kids hurriedly run outside with excitement. But the main character from Snow only looks out the window. She has a disability and cannot walk. The grandmother in the story empathizes with her granddaughter and relays a story from her childhood about what she did on a snowy day.

After the opening in Snow, we are immediately taken to the Grandmother’s childhood days; a story of one snowy day in the 1950s unfolds with beautiful pictures and text. As the granddaughter listens to her grandmother’s story, she slowly opens up her heart. She says she wants to go outside and play with her friends. Snow tells a story as if the reader is going through pictures in an album.

The grandmother simply tells her granddaughter a memory from her childhood. The grandmother does not pity or try to console her granddaughter. Just the fact that she recounts a story full of nostalgia is comforting to her granddaughter. And after listening to the story, the granddaughter gets the courage and hope to want to go outside herself.

Snow allows the reader to become absorbed in the grandmother’s story while at the same time showing a child overcoming feelings of loss and alienation. Snow is an encouraging and heartwarming picture book for any child that feels alone.