Before Morning Science Fiction

Before Morning Science FictionThere are planes to fly and buses to catch, but a child uses the power of words, in the form of an invocation, to persuade fate to bring her family a snow day a day slow and unhurried enough to spend at home together. In a spare text that reads as pure song and illustrations of astonishingly beautiful scratchboard art, Sidman and Krommes remind us that sometimes, if spoken from the heart, wishes really can come true. Hardcover: 48 pages Publisher: HMH

otherworldly race

Publisher: Anchor (May 1

Grand Master and head of the Jedi Council

her cousin

villagers of all species conspire to outsmart the bloated blowhard

who doesn't like the way things are changing

Leaving behind their home in the Big Woods of Wisconsin

Wilson Bentley was always fascinated by snow

With fifty thousand refugees

Lisa finds him and brings him inside so Hedgie gets to see the wonders of winter from inside the cozy house

under the Wind moon

Twenty years later