When The World Grows Quiet....: Ten Ways to Hear Snow by Cathy Camper
WHEN LINA WOKE UP, EVERYTHING WAS QUIET.
It was a different quiet--no sounds of cars, buses, and garbage trucks. The snow had fallen and left the world muffled and so quiet.
But Lina was supposed to help her Grandmother cook her specialty that morning!
SHE BUNDLED UP.
The sunshine reflecting off the snow was twice as bright as usual. But the silence was so deep that it seemed strange.
Then she heard a new sound:
SCRAAAPE! SCRAAAPE!
Mrs. Watson's snow shovel was one way to hear snow!
SNYAK SNYEK SNYUK!
Lina's boots leave behind a series of sounds and waffle prints on the sidewalk.
As Lina walks down the snowy street, she hears other snow sounds. Blobs of snow plop to the ground off snowy branches, skiis go swishy swish through the park. She spots a friend building a snowman with a pat-pat-pat and as she walks on...
THWOMP! HER FRIENDS TOSS A FRIENDLY SNOWBALL HER WAY.
When she arrives at her grandmother's building, she adds to the snow sounds with a STOMP, STOMP, STOMP! of her snow boots.
Inside, Lina finds her Grandmother Sitti waiting and the lamb and rice are done simmering for the filling for the grape leaves. Lina and her grandmother have fun rolling them up into little bundles. Lina held one right under her nose like a bushy mustache.
"WE LOOK LIKE A COUPLA REAL TOUGH GUYS!" LAUGHS GRANDMOTHER SITTI."
Lina hears a dripping sound coming from her thawing mittens.
"THAT'S ANOTHER WAY TO HEAR SNOW," SHE THINKS.
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And that evening Lina opens her window and hears the deep quiet outside, the tenth way to hear snow, in Cathy Camper's lovely snow day story, Ten Ways to Hear Snow
Labels: Grandmothers--Fiction, Snow--Fiction, Sound--Fiction (Grades Preschool-3)
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