The Snow Child by Freya Littledale Illustrated by Barbara
Lavallee Reviewed by Kevin S. (age 8) and Alex S. (age 9) Kevin
S. and Alex S. are students in Class C104 One day a man and a
woman built a snow child.The man said, "I wish she was alive. I
would like to have a child." Magically, she came alive. she had
hair made of willow branches covered with frost.She had very red
lips.She sat in a snow bed but she was never cold. She helped
the villagers make an ice palace in the winter. They liked it
very much.One day it was springtime and it became very warm and
sunny. The village children invited her to come outside and play
in the sun. She did not go out. she began to feel sick. Her lips
lost their red color . As the snow melted , she became
weaker.She went to her parents and said, "I am a child of the
snow and I must leave. I will return when the winter comes
again." Our favorite part of the book was when the snow child
built the palace because it was huge. It had horses' carriages.
We thought that the story w