7/4/2023 0 Comments Snowballs by lois ehlert![]() ![]() ![]() Her faultless sense of design immediately engages the reader: tidy white circles dot the gray backgrounds of her collages cut-paper birds show off their hand-painted wings and an offscreen narrator exhibits a sackful of ``good stuff''-birdseed, peanuts, corn kernels, etc.-accumulated in anticipation of the ``perfect snowball day.'' Soon the narrator and invisible colleagues have constructed a whole family of snow people and their pets. Only an artist as gifted as Ehlert (Nuts to You!) could take so well-worn a topic as building a snowman and make it as fresh as-well, new-fallen snow. ![]()
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