A review by jessalynn_librarian
Blizzard by John Rocco

4.0

A fun story of adventure in extreme snow, told with fantastic details in the illustrations. The text is straightforward, but the pictures really shine. The story starts before the title page - snowy endpages, and an opening page of our young hero, yardstick in hand, getting buried by the snow. Kids in my town, who get snow days when ice is forecast, but rarely get enough snow to play in, might find this particularly exciting. I loved the days of the week worked into the illustrations, the gentle humor ("I knew we couldn't survive much longer on cocoa made with water"), and the fold-out map of the boy's epic walk to the store. There are lovely contrasts between the cool, wintry exteriors and the cozy, warm indoor scenes.

My only complaint is the paper quality - with so many white pages, you can often see through to the illustration on the other side, which just looks cheap.