“Winter is coming … what should I do?” Many animals have an answer for the red fox who is wondering how to prepare. A caterpillar suggests spinning a chrysalis. A turtle suggests swimming deep down into mud. Gather nuts like squirrel? Zip into a cave, hang upside down, and sleep like bat? Fly south like the geese? “That won’t do for me,” fox answers each time, knowing he isn’t meant to do any of those things. Finally another red fox has an answer fox knows is just right: “When a million snowflakes fill the air, twirling, tumbling, spinning, waltzing, you and I join them.” A lyrical, patterned narrative is set against gorgeous illustrations in muted tones with occasional fox-red accents in a book evoking the natural world with both appreciation and playfulness. (Ages 3-7)

Snow is coming, and it's time to get ready! The squirrel gathers nuts, the geese soar south, and the snowshoe hare puts on its new white coat. But what should the fox do? Each animal advises the fox that its own plan is best, but the fox thinks otherwise--yet it's not until he meets a golden-eyed friend that he finds the perfect way to celebrate the snowfall.



Stunning illustrations by the new talent Richard Jones are the perfect complement to the Newbery Honor winner Marion Dane Bauer's lyrical and playful homage to the natural world.