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Richly illustrated, Kleven's latest picture book feast presents a year of everyday wonders, giving children an opportunity to snuggle up with a parent and enter into a warm, cozy world, where even the planets are tucked cozily into bed along with the shining stars.

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The warm words and enchanting pictures tucked securely within these covers are ideal and comforting companions to readers, young and less-young, who will long to cuddle together and share their charm all year 'round -- Andrew Medlar, youth materials specialist, Chicago Public Library

The warm words and enchanting pictures tucked securely within these covers are ideal and comforting companions to readers, young and less-young, who will long to cuddle together and share their charm all year 'round. --Andrew Medlar, Youth Materials Specialist, Chicago Public Library Readers will delight over the many different joys of each season. Each page allows the reader to feel, see and hear cozy. --JoEllen McCarthy, literacy coach The idea of cozy --hyggelig in Danish and Gemutlichkeit in German but not so nuanced in English--is what drives this deliciously illustrated, rhymed seasonal tale. The pictures are a riot of color and pattern. Readers move through the seasons, starting with autumn, with items one might not think of as cozy but that definitely are: Cozy toes in fuzzy boots, cozy pits in purple fruits. Several families of varying ethnicities populate these pages, and their activities display coziness: mom playing the banjo; dad at a sewing machine; everyone collecting a pumpkin in the rain. Braided loaves of bread, popcorn popping and Grandma tickling the belly of a pajama-clad toddler are all cozy. So are bugs in their flowers and keys in their pockets. Sometimes the rhyme doesn't quite catch, and sometimes it stretches beyond, but the images of [c]ozy matzo balls in soup or a scoop of ice cream cozy in its cone are pretty cute. Winter opens with three children on a quilted, padded window seat, watching the snow fall, while a parent in the kitchen flips hot cakes. The children's pajamas, the hall rug, snow falling on the rainbow-colored cityscape--all make a kaleidoscope of pattern that one can return to again and again. Every page is like that. It is worth noting that this title is printed and bound in the United States and that its paper is labeled from responsible sources. That would not help a less effective tale, but it truly enhances this 32-page delight. (Picture book. 4-7) --Kirkus Reviews

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Elisa Kleven is the author and/or illustrator of over 30 children's picture books, among them Glasswings: A Butterfly's Story, Welcome Home, Mouse, The Paper Princess, The Lion and the Little Red Bird, Sun Bread, as well as Abuela, by Arthur Dorros, De Colores, by Jose Luis Orozco, and The Weaver, by Thacher Hurd. Her books have received awards and honors from the American Library Association, The New York Times, The Junior Library Guild, School Library Journal, and the American Institute of Graphic Arts. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her family and pets.

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