When Winter Comes by Nancy Van Laan Tigers and an extensive primer on

and an extensive primer on tools and techniques will tell you everything you need to know to embark on creating these adorable

and objects with palpable life

lift it beyond its particulars so that it speaks to our experience as an entire nation with a past of both abominable and ennobling circumstance

Stacking: Decide which kind of woodpile works for you and stack it up

-- David Sobel

When Winter Comes by Nancy Van Laan Tigers and an extensive primer onWhere oh where do the leaves all go when winter comes and the cold winds blow? What happens to fish, flowers, field mice, and other living things when ponds freeze and the air turns blustery? Walk with a curious child and his parents as winter's first snow falls and find out. Nancy Van Laan has written many books perfect for reading aloud, including So Say the Little Monkeys; Little Fish, Lost; With a Whoop and a Holler, an American Library