One cold morning Mouse and Poppa step out into a world that has gone completely white overnight, and everything in it has to be tested. They sled down a hill. They skate across the ice. They fall over in the snow and discover what a snow angel is. And before it is time to go home, Mouse manages to make one more friend out of the snow itself.

Lauren Thompson writes in short, repeating beats that a toddler can join in on by the third reading, and Buket Erdogan paints winter in soft brushed blues that make the pages feel genuinely cold in the best way. It is a first book about seasons that works because it never explains the season, it just goes out into it.

Now in the Classic Board Book format from Little Simon: 34 thick pages, small square hands size, and sturdy enough for the mitten treatment.