Little Snowman Stan: Can't We Share?

PreS-K—Snowman Stan lives in Freezeland. He and the other snowmen all dress in a traditional, simple style that always includes a hat, which varies from knit cap to flower pot to tin bucket. One day, a stranger arrives with a bare head. Stan feels sorry for him and offers his own hat to Dmitri for a day or two, but when he tries to get it back after ten days, the snowman refuses to return it. The snowfolk meet in Ice Square to help solve the problem, and Stan himself comes up with the perfect solution. Hint: sharing is the answer. The illustrations are sweet and straightforward: spare, snowy backgrounds feature lots of snowmen, all with carrot noses and colorful scarves and headgear. Children will be charmed by this picture book and may relate to the unfairness of Dmitri's keeping Stan's hat. The lovely story offers a kind way to solve the problem of what to do when someone does not share.—Mary Hazelton, formerly at Warren & Waldoboro Elementary Schools, ME