Today is my stop on the blog tour for Charlotte’s Snowman by Lainey Dee.

Lainey Dee was born in Birmingham and grew up in Kidderminster, Worcestershire. As well as Charlotte’s Snowman she has also written, Let’s Celebrate Being Different and Rodasauri the Dinosaur’s Trip to London. 

She was inspired to write for young people having worked with children for many years. Lainey currently looks after twins aged five years. A huge art deco fan, she lives in an art deco house which is decorated in that period style. In her free time, she enjoys baking and cooking for friends and visiting national trust properties. Her favourite ice cream is strawberry and the strangest place she has slept in was a tepee Texas.

Lainey enjoys using her imagination to invent new stories and characters. She hopes her books will help readers see themselves and the world differently and understand how special they are.

The blurb from the back of the book says:

Children love building snowmen. When they add a nose, eyes, and mouth to their snowman, they get a magical feeling that their snowman has his own personality.
And… sometimes snowmen do come alive!

Charlotte wakes up and sees that it’s snowing… it’s snowing and it’s snowing. She runs outside to build a snowman. She fixes a carrot for the snowman’s nose, a stick for his mouth, and two stones for his eyes.

But the snowman has many demands, so Charlotte has to part with her gloves, scarf and hat; so her snowman wouldn’t feel cold. But the sun comes up all of a sudden, and Charlotte cannot find her snowman anymore. She is sad. Then, she learns that her snowman hasn’t disappeared completely, but is hiding in the ground, waiting to emerge next winter.

Charlotte’s snowman by Lainey Dee

My stop on the tour will take the form of a review.

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Title: Charlotte’s Snowman

Written by: Lainey Dee

Illustrated by: Sarah-Leigh Wills

Published by: KA Books

Charlotte’s Snowman is a quaint, simple story which gently conveys the message of hope and belief using the familiar story of a child building a snowman that melts and the realisation she can build another snowman next year when it snows. The magical twist of the snowman coming to life highlights how children use their imagination to create their own world of enchanting make believe.

I think children from ages 1-5 years will enjoy listening to this story and exploring the charming, bold illustrations. The completed snowman in the hat and scarf with the carrot nose is rather cute. The plot is conveyed in a calm, relaxed way that would be ideal to read at bedtime to help children go to sleep with pleasant dreams.

A great book for helping to explain things may not last forever but there is always hope for the future.

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You can buy copies of Charlotte’s Snowman by Lainey Dee and Sarah-Leigh Wills from Amazon.

You can find out more about Lainey Dee and her books on the SheildCrest Publishing website: https://www.shieldcrest.co.uk/about/featured-authors/lainey-dee

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I would like to thank Rachel from Rachel’s Random Tour for inviting me to take part in this blog tour.

If you have read any recent children’s picture books with a Christmas theme I would love to hear from you. Let me know of any new Christmas releases in the comments.