Snowy Mittens: A Winter Adventure (A Let's Play Outside! Book)

Shauntay Grant

Sep 2023 · Abrams

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The picture book Snowy Mittens: A Winter Adventure is a celebration of Black joy and the simple pleasures of a day in the snow from award-winning poet and picture book author Shauntay Grant.

Follow along as a young boy spends the day sledding and ice skating with his family in this spare and poetic picture book. With a simple story—and simply stunning color illustrations from Candice Bradley—Snowy Mittens is an ode to celebrating winter’s coziest wonders, big and small.

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Shauntay Grant is an acclaimed poet and author of several picture books, including Sandy Toes, One Day, When I Wrap My Hair, and My Fade Is Fresh, which earned a starred review in Publishers Weekly. Her picture book Africville won the 2019 Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award and was a finalist for the 2018 Governor General’s Literary Awards, the 2019 Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children’s Book Awards, and the 2019 Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia Masterworks Arts Award. Grant is an assistant professor of creative writing at Dalhousie University, a member of the College of the Royal Society of Canada, and a former poet laureate of Halifax. She lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and loves to go sledding with her family in winter.