When it's too cold to play outside, a winter story is the next best thing. Here are the free winter books we'd reach for first, sorted by age. They're all on the Pagine winter collection.
Snow and penguin picture books (ages 2–6)
- Wow! Snow
- Mrs Penguin’s Perfect Palace
- I Hate Winter: for the child who'd rather it were summer.
- Pagine Original Ten Snowflakes: a counting story.
Winter stories for K–3 (ages 5–9)
- Snow Ball and The Story of Snowstorm
- JET Penguin and The Ugly Penguin
- Why Did the Polar Bear Leave? and Climate Change’s Effect on Polar Bears, for curious young scientists.
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Winter classics and adventures (ages 9+)
- Heidi: winters in the Swiss Alps.
- Hans Brinker, or the Silver Skates: a skating race on the Dutch canals.
- Little White Fox and His Arctic Friends
- Children of the Arctic and Arctic Adventures
Winter printables
Pair the books with a winter word search, winter vocabulary words, a build-a-snowman sheet, a snowflake reading tracker and 300 winter worksheets by grade.
Keep a “snow day basket” of three or four books by the door. On the first snowy morning, it’s ready.
Read these winter books free in Pagine.