Over and Under the Snow - Kate Messner, illustrated by Christopher Silas Neal (hardcover)

While cross-country skiing in the North Woods, Dad and Child glimpse signs of wildlife and discuss the winter activities or slumbers of common creatures such as red squirrels, shrews, white-tailed deer, deer mice, voles, snowshoe hares, bullfrogs, beavers, red foxes, chipmunks, black bears, and bumblebees. Families are bound to learn things they never knew about wildlife in winter while enjoying Christopher Silas Neal’s nostalgic but distinctly idiomatic illustrations expressing the season’s peace. 

Best suited as a read aloud for ages 3 to 7.