Waiting for snow

Patience is a hard virtue for Badger to practice as he anxiously awaits the first snow of the season in this delightful wintry read. Badger cannot wait one more minute for it to snow. When his friend Hedgehog explains that everything comes in its time, Badger is as unconvinced and impatient as ever.

But Badger's friends have a few tricks up their sleeve to try to get the snow's attention and distract their pal in the meantime.

In the end, Badger sees there's no trick-only waiting-until at last, it's time. AGES: 4-7 AUTHOR: Marsha Diane Arnold is an award-winning author whose writing has been called engaging and "a guaranteed good time." Visit her website at www.marshadianearnold.com. Renata Liwska lives and works in Canada, with her illustrator husband, Mike.

Her childhood memories are of growing up in Warsaw, Poland