As soon as winter arrives, Hedgehog is excited. He wishes he could build a snowman, skate on the ice, and sled down the hill. But his friends, Bear, Raccoon, and Chipmunk, don’t want to play. They are ready to hibernate.
So, Hedgehog puts on his hat, his coat, and his mittens and tries to find someone to have a winter adventure with him. As he skates on the frozen pond, he wonders what a falling snowflake tastes like. Then, Deer arrives and helps him build a snowman and find a piece of bark for a sled.
After sledding, Hedgehog and Deer share some leftover berries. But Hedgehog’s eyes are growing sleepy. But he still doesn’t know what a falling snowflake tastes like. As he walks toward his warm burrow, he catches a snowflake on his tongue and says, “Snowflakes taste like winter!”
He happily curls up in his burrow and goes to sleep thinking about his winter adventure.
About Author Raven Howell
Raven Howell is an award-winning author of children’s picture and poetry books. She writes for several children’s magazines including Ladybug, The School Magazine, Highlights for Children, Spider, Fun for Kidz, Jack and Jill, Cricket, Hello, Babybug, HighFive, and Humpty Dumpty.
Raven enjoys sharing her joy of reading and literature by visiting classrooms and libraries. She serves as Creative & Publishing Advisor for Red Clover Reader, writes The Book Bug column for Story Monsters Ink magazine, and is a Collaborating Author for Reading is Fundamental and I am a Promise Books. She is the director of Kids Corner, an arts & crafts activity resource center for elementary aged children.
As a journalist, her credentials include Reading With Your Kids Magazine, KidLio, and Voice magazine. As a contributing writer for Story Monsters Ink, she has interviewed and featured such heavyweights as Jamie Lee Curtis, Lance Bass and Matthew McConaughy.
She’s a storybook writer for educational publisher, Reading Gate, and aims for every child’s opportunity to blossom.