As the weather gets colder, cozy up with a good book! Here are some of our favorite children’s books about winter. Click the links to place holds on our catalog or borrow in other formats from hoopla and more. You can also download a paper copy of our Winter Wonderland Bibliography.
Board Books
Biscuit’s Snowy Day (2005) by Alyssa Satin Capucilli
All the Little Snowflakes (2020) by Cindy Jin
Winter Is for Snow (2013) by Robert Neubecker ; also available in picture book format
Easy Readers
Snow (1990) by Roy McKie and P.D. Eastman
Snow Day (2020) by Margo Gates ; also available as hoopla ebook
Chicken in Mittens (2017) by Adam Lehrhaupt ; also available as hoopla ebook
Snow Hens (2016) by Janet Morgan Stoeke
Fox Versus Winter (2020) by Corey R. Tabor ; also available as overdrive ebook
Oliver & Amanda and the Big Snow (1995) by Jean Van Leeuwen
Picture Books
No Two Alike (2011) by Keith Baker
Winter Dance (2017) by Marion Dane Bauer
The Mitten: A Ukrainian Folktale (1989) by Jan Brett
The Three Snow Bears (2007) by Jan Brett
The Snowman (1978) by Raymond Briggs ; also available as hoopla movie
A Home in the Barn (2018) by Margaret Wise Brown
Good Morning, Snowplow! (2018) by Deborah Bruss
Snowmen at Night (2002) by Caralyn Buehner
Katy and the Big Snow (1971) by Virginia Lee Burton ; also available as hoopla ebook
One Winter’s Day (2006) by M. Christina Butler
Little Dog Lost: The True Story of a Brave Dog Named Baltic (2012) by Mônica Carnesi
There Was a Cold Lady Who Swallowed Some Snow! (2003) by Lucille Colandro ; also available in our kit format and as hoopla e-audiobook
The Shortest Day (2019) by Susan Cooper
Wolf in the Snow (2017) by Matthew Cordell ; also available as overdrive ebook
Snowballs (1995) by Lois Ehlert
Winter Is Here (2018) by Kevin Henkes
Red Sled (2011) by Lita Judge
The Snowy Day (1962) by Ezra Jack Keats ; also available as hoopla e-audiobook, hoopla movie, overdrive ebook, and overdrive video
The Little Snowplow (2015) by Lora Koehler
Here Comes Jack Frost (2009) by Kazuno Kohara
A Day So Gray (2019) by Marie Lamba ; also available as overdrive ebook
Winter Cats (2019) by Janet Lawler; also available as hoopla ebook
Little Red Gliding Hood (2015) by Tara Lazar
Lines (2017) by Suzy Lee ; also available as hoopla ebook
Tacky the Penguin (1988) by Helen Lester
Got to Get to Bear’s! (2018) by Brian Lies ; also available as eReadIllinos ebook
Froggy Gets Dressed (1992) by Jonathan London ; also available as hoopla e- audiobook
Over and Under the Snow (2011) by Kate Messner ; also available as hoopla ebook, hoopla e-audiobook, eReadIllinois ebook, and overdrive ebook
Wintercake (2019) by Lynne Rae Perkins
When the Snow Is Deeper Than My Boots Are Tall (2019) by Jean Reidy
Blizzard (2014) by John Rocco
Snow (2008) by Cynthia Rylant
Before Morning (2016) by Joyce Sidman ; also available as hoopla ebook
Brave Irene (1986) by William Steig ; also available as hoopla ebook
Winter is the Warmest Season (2006) by Lauren Stringer ; also available on tumblebooks
The Snowbear (2017) by Sean Taylor
Mouse’s First Snow (2005) by Lauren Thompson
White Snow, Bright Snow (1988) by Alvin Tresselt ; also available as hoopla ebook
Bear Snores On (2002) by Karma Wilson ; also available as hoopla e-audiobook1, hoopla e-audiobook2, and hoopla movie
Owl Moon (1987) by Jane Yolen ; also available as hoopla e-audiobook
Fiction
Twelve Kinds of Ice (2012) by Ellen Bryan Obed ; also available as hoopla audiobook
Brian’s Winter (1996) by Gary Paulsen ; also available as eReadIllinois ebook, eReadIllinois e-audiobook, overdrive ebook, and overdrive e-audiobook
Snow Day (2016) by Jessie Haas
Pee Wee & Plush (2002) by Johanna Hurwitz
The Fast and the Frozen (2014) by Geronimo Stilton
The Mystery in the Snow (1992) by Gertrude Chandler Warner ; also available as hoopla ebook and hoopla e-audiobook
Nonfiction
The First Day of Winter (2005) by Denise Fleming
The Story of Snow: The Science of Winter’s Wonder (2009) by Mark Cassino with Jon Nelson ; also available as hoopla ebook, eReadIllinois ebook, overdrive ebook, and tumblebook
Snow (2021) by Harriet Brundle ; also available as hoopla ebook
Best in Snow (2016) by April Pulley Sayre
Curious about Snow (2016) by Gina Shaw
A Bed for Winter (2000) by Karen Wallace
Penguins! (2009) by Anne Schreiber ; also available as hoopla ebook
Snowflake Bentley (1998) by Jacqueline Briggs Martin ; also available as hoopla e-audiobook1 and hoopla e-audiobook2
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening (2001) by Robert Frost
Winter Bees & Other Poems of the Cold (2014) by Joyce Sidman ; also available as hoopla ebook
En Español
Tú Puedes Hacerlo, Sam! (2003) por Amy Hest, traducido por Alberto Jiménez Rioja
Un Dia de Nieve (1992) por Ezra Jack Keats
El Pinguino Taky (2001) por Helen Lester, traducido por Yanitzia Canetti ; también disponible como eReadIllinois e-book
Los Pingüinos (2015) by Anne Schreiber ; también disponible como hoopla ebook
