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Treasures of the Snow is a children's story book by Patricia St. John. [2] Originally published by CSSM in 1950, it has been reprinted over a dozen times by various publishers, including braille versions published by the Royal National Institute for the Blind in 1959 [3] and by the Queensland Braille Writing Association in 1996. [4]
Snow Treasure is a children's novel by Marie McSwigan. Set in Nazi-occupied Norway during World War II, it recounts the story of several Norwegian children who use sleds to smuggle their country's gold bullion past German guards to a waiting ship, the Cleng Peerson. [1] [2] [3] Published in 1942, it has been in print ever since. [4]
[2] [4] It also appears in Medieval fabliaux, [3] and was used in school exercises of rhetoric. [2] A Medieval play about the Virgin Mary has characters disbelieving her story of her pregnancy citing the tale. [2] It contrasts to Aarne-Thompson type 703*, Snow Maiden, where a child really has a magical snow-related origin. [5]
The novel was a finalist for the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction [2] and was generally well received by critics. [3] [4] [5] The Snow Child, derived from the Russian folk tale, is set in Alaska in the 1920s and follows Jack and Mabel, a childless older couple struggling as homesteaders in the Alaskan wilderness. The sudden emergence of a young ...
“That’s so cheesy. I hate that.” That’s what Emily Snow thought about her stage name, Snow Wife, when her best friend and producer, Sam Catalano, a.k.a. Slush Puppy, suggested she use it ...
This book uses lively watercolor and pen-and-ink illustrations to show the transformation of the city as snow falls. The beginning pages use a dull and bleak palette. By the end of the book the previously dull city is covered in snow and looks magical and bright.
The story of Snegurochka was adapted into two Soviet films: an animated film with some of Rimsky-Korsakov's music, called The Snow Maiden (1952), and the live-action film The Snow Maiden (1968). Ruth Sanderson retold the story in the picture book The Snow Princess , in which falling in love does not immediately kill the princess, but turns her ...
When lake-effect snow hits regions of the Great Lakes during late fall and winter, you start to hear meteorologists use terms like "feet of snow," "whiteout conditions," "blizzard" and "travel ...