Katy and the Big Snow: A Winter and Holiday Book for Kids

This is such a lovely book! A very fun story and beautiful pictures! It's a children's book enjoyable for adults too!

This book is a classic that kids love. The pictures are perfect, the read is interesting and it teaches kids a valuable lesson. Can't say enough good things about this book.

My grandkids enjoyed this book a lot. I created a literature-based unit study around it and they enjoyed reading in in the middle of winter.

Virginia Lee Burton was a gift to the world. Her writing (indeed her personality I'm sure) is warm, sincere, and hopeful. As the characters in her stories come upon hard times, they never give up hope and never lose their positive hard-working attitude. Virginia Lee Burton's characters are long-suffering and gentle, enthusiastic and generous, and in Katy and the Big Snow, we are introduced to an unforgettably doughty protagonist willing to put everything she has on the line to help friends in need. The snow plow Katy is not just a snow plow. She also lends the help of her horsepower wherever and however it is needed. She is portrayed as a bulldozer and a hauler car that helps to save the waterlogged automotive machinery. In the winter, Katy is converted to a snow plow and clears the roads. When a snow storm sweeps across Geoppolis, it is up to Katy to save the day. Katy the snow plow emerges as the last vehicle standing that might still have a chance of braving the piled-up drifts to clear the roads for emergency personnel to use. As the urgent requests for assistance mount up and begin to take their toll on Katy, the steadfast snow plow refuses to turn her back on those for whom she is the last hope of rescue. The night wears on and Katy continues to plow road after road after road. I really like this story. More importantly, my son enjoys it too. Burton does things differently than other creators of picture books, for example, in the middle of the book is a full two-page spread devoted to a coded map of Geoppolis, complete with a numbered key chart so readers can find exactly where everything is located in the small city. I also love how Virginia Lee Burton is able to convincingly ascribe traits of inner strength and courage to a snow plow. It has been seventy years since this book was first published, and it is still being published and enjoyed by children today. I'd like to think it will still be that way for my son's children. Bonus: My son loves that the book includes stickers that he loves putting on his hands or using them to decorate our fridge.

Great for reading to kids of any age. I got this along with Mike Mulligan & His Amazing Steam Shovel. They are a great combo for kids. The snow machine being female is a nice bonus. Teaches vocabulary and is easy for kids to learn to read on their own. Cute story with many good lessons. Highly recommended.

This is a great book. A bit long for a board book, I think it would be best fit in the full picture book format. My 2 year old does fine with it but would be too long for a younger listener to sit through. The story is nice, the illustrations are engaging and I love that it is a transportation themed book where the vehicle is female! Great addition for any transportation obsessed kiddos.

So happy I found this, I am able to share a fond memory for my childhood with my son. Read this to my son when ever the snow is falling

This book was always one of my favorites growing up as a kid. Being from Buffalo, snow and snow plows were a way of life. But this is a story that anyone can appreciate. It is very imaginative and the illustrations allow you to imagine life in the little town of Geopolis. and it's fun to imagine Katy pushing her way through huge piles of snow. This book may have been my first exposure to maps. I say this because i'm reading the book to my 2 year old son and know that this is his first intro to the idea of maps and urban planning :-) clever use of the page perimeter as part of the storytelling. I highly recommend it. It's my favorite from Virginia Lee Burton, who has written several other popular children's books.

My 4yr old son loves it. Good story he also likes the audio to go with the book.

This was my favourite book as a little boy. i used to spend hours looking at the illustrations. Now I've brought a copy for my baby girl and she loves it too! The story is good fun and the illustrations are beautiful and there are lots to look at and to keep you entertained. I used to like following Katy around the city on the big map in the middle of the book. I wonder perhaps if this book is the reason that I ended up marrying a girl called Katy... Something subconsciously made me have an affinity with the name.

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Me gustan mucho los libros de Victoria Lee Burton. Tus historias son encantadoras. Se lo compré a mi hijo de 3 años.

Wonderful story much loved by my 5 year old son, as it was over 50 years ago when I was his age... this copy bought so that my old copy could retire with dignity before it fell to bits!