Katy and the Big Snow by Virginia Lee Burton - A Simple Favorite

This old-fashioned tale about one little snowplows determination in the face of a small-town blizzard has all the charm and moral grit of The Little Engine That Could. This isnt surprising, considering that Caldecott Medal-winning author Virginia Lee Burton (The Little House) specializes in bringing the inanimate to life with endearing illustrations and stories of fortitude and vulnerability. Katy, a red crawler tractor, could do a lot of things, Burton explains early on. In the summer she is a bulldozer, helping to build and repair roads in the city of Geoppolis. In the winter, she turns into a snowplow, waiting and waiting for her chance to be useful. Most of the winters, though, the snowfalls are mild and the town doesnt need Katy. But when the big one finally hits, the town is buried in page after page of powder. The power lines are down. The doctor cant get his patient to the hospital. The fire department cant reach a burning house! Everyone and everything was stopped but... KATY! Suddenly, the entire community is dependent on one little snowplow. Children love witnessing Katys shining moment of glory and will inevitably admire her chug, chug, chug endurance. (Ages 4 and older) --Gail Hudson

A Simple Favorite
I have fond memories of this book as a child, so I wanted to share it with my three year old daughter. To my surprise, it was not quite as interesting to me now as it was in my memories. My daughter loves it, however, and we read it together often! It is a simple story of a mess being cleaned up, and maybe that simplicity is what appeals to her.

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