Since we’re in the throes of winter (although “throes” may be debatable, depending on where you’re located), it seems fitting that today’s featured finalist review is the Fiction Picture Book title Blizzard, written and illustrated by John Rocco. Our blog review for this title was posted to Gathering Books, and was written by the blog’s founder Myra Garces-Bascal, who does all kinds of exciting educational-psychology things in Singapore as well as writing reviews of children’s literature. When she reviewed Blizzard last winter, she said:
“There is childlike joy here, but there is also resolve, a sense of determination, and yes, exhaustion too, in the end, that is sigh-inducing with glittery snowflakes caught in one’s eyes. A hands-down beautiful read.”