Presents poems about the joys and beauties of winter, including snowflakes, snowballs, ice skating, and snowmen.

A celebration of the winter solstice and the Yuletide season. As the sun set on the shortest day of the year, early people would gather to prepare for the long night ahead. They built fires and lit candles. They played music, bringing their own light to the darkness, while wondering if the sun would ever rise again. Written for a theatrical production that has become a ritual in itself, Susan Cooper's poem "The Shortest Day" captures the magic behind...

Celebrates the animals who hibernate and survive in the cold during the winter months.

A collection of poems about winter, including "Sled," "Icicles," and "Ice Fishing."

A collection of winter poems ranging from late fall to early spring, by such authors as Shakespeare, Edgar Allan Poe, and Wallace Stevens.

Celebrates all the things that make winter and spring special, including flakes of snow, snowmen, and ponds to skate on in the winter, and crocus blooms, baby birds in the nest, and playing in the playground in the spring.

A journal in free verse and photographs of a ski season in New Zealand.

A collection of more than a dozen poems that capture the excitement of winter.

Fifteen poems celebrate the snow, hibernating animals, icicles, and other signs of winter.

"A poetic personification of the winter season, Mother Winter goes walking "on the longest cold night," inviting the reader along to experience chill winds, icy ponds, white snowdrifts, and other quiet wonders"--