The Snowman
By Raymond Briggs
Random House Books, 2000
The Snowman is a wordless picture book that allows students to tell their own story. Each page contains multiple pictures of scenarios where a little boy gets ready to go out into the snow, creates a snowman, and goes on adventures with his new friend. In the end, the little boy wakes up to find his snowman has melted. This leaves the reader to question whether or not the little boy actually went on the adventures with the snowman, or if it was all a dream.
I love wordless picture books because students become the “author” and can imagine their own words. I think using this book for young children is great, but with older children you can have them come up with their own dialogue and words to create their own story. This allows students to be creative as well as become authors. Because this book is a winter story, it would be great to use with a seasons unit and do lots of snowman crafts!
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