Category: Announcements
Mermaid Affair: A Celebration of Water
May 31st, 2010A fascinating art exhibit dedicated to water in all its many forms will be opening June 1, 2010, at the Commerce Pointe Gallery in Battle Creek, Michigan. I contributed a couple of large snow crystal prints for the exhibit - which I believe are the photo… more »
Japanese Edition Coming Soon!
March 13th, 2010An interesting package arrived in the mail earlier this week - it contained a couple of advance copies of The Story of Snow, Japanese edition. Here's a scan of the cover - the book is a bit smaller than the US edition. How cool! more »
A Few Irregulars
March 7th, 2010I hear the birds sing in the morning - the Cardinal with his 'bomb drop' song, the slurry scrabbly song of starlings at first light, and the 'To-hee to-hee chickachickadeedeedee' of Chickadees - the only bird that sings in deep winter, and gets all the… more »
Chicago Public Library "Best of the Best - 2010" List
February 20th, 2010The Chicago Public Library recently published its "Best of the Best 2010" list - and The Story of Snow is on it! The library describes the list as including books that are "some of the very best published for kids in 2009." You can see the whole list h… more »
Three From This Evening
February 15th, 2010A gentle snow has been falling this evening - here are three new photos, more will be coming: more »
It Snowed Today
February 9th, 2010It snowed today. It's snowing now. At first it was hard and driving, wet and clumping. Now it is dry and dusty, tiny and incomplete. But between those things it breifly fell, small and well formed, tiny dots just a millimeter or so across. Here's one p… more »
Blue Ribbon From BCCB
January 28th, 2010The Story of Snow has been awarded a 2009 Blue Ribbon from the Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books! You can see all the details here: http://bccb.lis.illinois.edu/blue09.html - Mark more »
Snow at last!
January 27th, 2010A light snow has been falling for the last few days. It's not been much. I look out my window at the lawn mowed last fall, and green tips of grass blades poke out of the snow. On the internet I see the lake effect snow bands playing out to the north, bu… more »
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