The First Snow Of Winter

“How do you fall in love with someone? How do you feel when it happens? Do you smile whole day or do you realise that there is a beatbox inside you which plays the sweet songs whenever you see the one? For me it was just like a fairytale… I know most of us do not believe in magic, but I do…love is so magical when it happens with the right person, when it builds slowly, when it makes everything disappear except the love itself! But… I do have fear, I have fear that what if one day…my love story won’t have a happy ending? What if I have to see it going away and disappearing in front of my eyes? What if I’d never get the chance to see the snowfall of my love? What if my wait…stays forever?”

2019 Independent Publisher Book Award—Silver, Children's Picture Books (7 & Under) A celebration of the first snowfall of the season. Snowflakes falling! What a treat! Friends gather outside to celebrate the first snowfall of the season with snowball fights, sledding, building igloos, drinking hot chocolate, and making the most of a windy, wintry day. With rhyming text and cheerful illustrations, this is a charming celebration of the winter season.

Look out. Now look up. From the sky one flake falls, then another. And just like that—it's snowing. In this beautiful book from debut creator Bomi Park, a young girl wakes up to the year's first snowy day. From her initial glimpse out the window to her poignant adventures—rolling a snowman, making snow angels—the girl's quiet quests are ones all young readers will recognize. Simple, muted text and exquisite, evocative art conjure the excitement of a day spent exploring the wonder of snow—and the magic that, sometimes literally, such a day brings. As subtly joyful as a snow day itself, this book will find its home in the hearts of young adventurers everywhere. Plus, this is the fixed format version, which looks almost identical to the print edition.

Children of all ages will enjoy this enchanted tale of change by the wildlifephotographers/authors who created two "New York Times" bestsellers: "Strangerin the Woods" and "Lost in the Woods."

Winter seeks acceptance from the young Mother Nature, who hates the season and tries to keep it away by painting the trees bright and wild colors.

A Winterbourne prequel story 1814: Captain Sam Alderton returns to England from the continent with his life in tatters. Maimed and directionless, the last thing he wants to do is spend Christmas with his family and their close friends, the Huxleys—especially Jasper Huxley, who he almost kissed five years before. Sam plans to avoid the festivities, but when the first snow of winter arrives, and he and Jasper are trapped alone together at Alderton Hall, they find themselves revisiting old traditions and painful memories together—and discovering that things may not have been quite as either of them thought five years earlier. This story previously appeared in the Gifts For The Season anthology

It is the story of a WWII hero, his unfaithful wife, his pregnant daughter, a brave and loyal son, and the realization that his Victoria Cross was really won by his friend and mentor, Sharkey, and the admission by his wife that his daughter was not really his. This knowledge all weighs heavily on the shoulders of our hero as he and his family depart Quebec City for Fredericton and encounters an early winter storm coming in off the Gulf of St. Lawrence twenty-four hours earlier than expected. The results of the encounter with the fierce storm provides tragic solutions to the family problems.