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Here, 25 of the best classic winter books to read by the fire this winter: If on a Winter's Night a Traveler Italo Calvino's postmodernist novel is a masterfully crafted puzzle.
Wandering Through Winter: A Naturalist's Record of a 20,000-Mile Journey Through the North American Winter is a nonfiction book written by Edwin Way Teale, published in 1965 by Dodd, Mead and Company, and winner of the 1966 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction. [1] [2] [3] The book was republished in 1990 by St Martin's Press. [4]
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A Winter Book is a collection of twenty short stories by Finnish author Tove Jansson, published by Sort of Books in 2006. The stories, some of which had not previously been published in English, were selected by Ali Smith , who also wrote the book's introduction and had previously reviewed The Summer Book for The Guardian . [ 1 ]
The Caldecott Medal winner in 1999 for the best-illustrated children's book was Snowflake Bentley, which remembers Bentley's life. [ 11 ] At the Fairbanks Museum and Planetarium , a meteorological observation center in St. Johnsbury, Vermont , there is an exhibit about atmospheric ice crystal formation featuring several of Bentley’s photos ...
16. "What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.” — John Steinbeck. 17. "Snowing is an attempt of God to make the dirty world look clean.”
On Book Marks, from eight critics: two "rave", five "positive", and one "mixed". [6] In the May/June 2012 issue of Bookmarks, the book was scored 3.5 out of 5.The magazine's critical summary reads: "The novel may be a little too long, given its rather simple plot, and it may not offer "a revelation of content or style or form" (Slate).
The novel centers around the opening of a guest house in a fictional western Ireland coastal town called Stoneybridge. The personal stories of the proprietress of the guest house, Chicky Starr, the caretakers, and the guests are told in succeeding chapters, with the common theme being each character's search for self-acceptance. [1]