Snowmen At Work (2012 original; edició 2012)

The beautiful illustrations lets children's imaginations soar when they read about what snowmen do at night. When everyone goes to bed the snowmen come to life. They all have different jobs to do around the town. Children will love to imagine their snowmen helping out around their town at night, taking care of the town they live in. This is a great story to help children read the story through the pictures. ( )

Snowmen at Work If you were a snowman, what job would you choose? Ten years ago, on the publication of Snowmen at Night, we discovered the secret lives of snowmen. While we humans sleep, the snowmen go sledding, play baseball, and drink cocoa. But now it's revealed that snowmen don't just play all night--they have jobs to do, just like the parents of human kids. Dentists replace missing coal from snowman smiles while pet store owners help pair snowkids with their very own snowpuppy or snowfish to love. (amazon)

When winter sidewalks seem to have been mysteriously shoveled, a child wonders if snowmen are magic and have nighttime jobs while the people sleep. Includes hidden pictures.

When the young boy-narrator of this fourth picture-book devoted to the potential doings of snowmen discovers that his sidewalks have been shoveled by persons unknown, he starts to wonder if his snowman had something to do with it. Could snowmen have jobs, just like people? And if so, what do they do...?

Like its predecessors, Snowmen at Work pairs an entertaining, imaginative tale told in rhyme with bright, colorful artwork, done in acrylic and oil paint. I found it enjoyable, although Caralyn Buehner's text felt just a little bit less smooth, reading it aloud, than the first three. The illustrations by Mark Beuhner were as fun as ever, but the hidden pictures that are to be found in all the books in this series were difficult to locate in this entry. I subtracted half a star for this problem. With the provision that they should be aware of this issue, I do recommend this one to fans of the Buehners' previous three books about the secret doings of snowmen. ( )

When the sidewalks look like they have been shoveled, a child wonders if snowmen are magic and have jobs that they do at night while people are asleep.