It snowed during the night. Lina’s Sitti is losing her eyesight. Lina’s going to help her grandma make warab enab. On the way to her grandmother’s house, Lina listens carefully, and she discovers many ways to hear snow.Lovely.

This is a truly beautiful book about perspective, tradition, and listening. It will be a winter favorite going forward.

Ten Ways to Hear Snow is a lovely ode to cherishing the small things in life. Beautifully written with tons of onomatopoeia. Gorgeously illustrated. Inclusive without being preachy. And it reminded me, an adult, that there is more to snow than having to shovel and drive precariously in it. Highly rec'd.

This beautifully drawn, engaging tribute to grandmother-granddaughter relationships also includes a bonus introduction to Lebanese language and cuisine. Endnotes defining the vocabulary words and providing a pronunciation guide, along with descriptions of the Lebanese dishes and possibly a recipe or two, would have been welcome additions to this heartwarming story.

What a sweet story! I miss snow so much!!

Lina wakes up one winter day to find that the world is covered in white. Concerned for her sitti, or grandmother, with whom she is supposed to make warak enab (stuffed grape leaves), Lina sets out through the snow, discovering many different ways to hear that cold substance as she walks to her grandmother's house. Once there, she discovers that sitti, whose eyesight is failing, has her own ways of hearing and appreciating snow...A delightful story from Arab-American author Cathy Camper is paired...

Fantastic! Tuning into the sense of hearing, this book follows a little girl named Lina as she experiences snow in different ways. She is on her way to visit Sitti who has low vision. By the end of the story, she discovers that Sitti's sense of hearing is heightened, too. The friendship between Sitti and Lina (grandmother and granddaughter) is delightful. They spend time working on a family tradition of making warak enab and enjoy each other's company. This is a debut book for the author! Congra...

This peaceful picture book captures the feel and sounds of a snow day. When Lina awakens to find the neighborhood covered in snow, she wonders if her grandmother who has lost much of her sight even knows that it snowed. She thinks about how snow sounds - the sounds of people scraping their sidewalks, cleaning off their cars, or skiing through the park - as she walks to her grandmother's retirement home to help her with a cooking project. This quiet, thoughtful book celebrates the special moments...

A young Lebanese girl wakes up to a world of snow. As she heads off on her way to visit her almost blind Sitti to make grape leaves, she focuses on the different sounds the snow makes. The book is full of rich descriptive language and stunning illustrations. As soon as I read "No garbage trucks gulped trash across the street," I knew this book was going to be special. It lived up to my expectations. I connected to the many different sounds of snow from the scraaape, scrip, scraaape, scrip of the...

Reading words my grandparents and parents say to me makes my heart warm. I also loved the added component of the food of the Arab world...some of my favorite. Great for sequencing, description, onomatopoeia, and it serves as a mirror, window, and a sliding glass door.

This is a lovely picture book that evokes the stillness of a snowy day.After a blizzard, Lina notices that the world seems quiet. But as she makes her way to her grandmother's place, she realizes that there are all sorts of different ways to hear snow: the sound of boots crunching, the sound of a snowball hitting her, the sound of mittens dripping as they hang on the radiator to dry. She comes up with nine on her own, and with the help of Sitti, makes it an even ten.The story is lovely, featurin...

Absolutely beautiful.

I'm always drawn into Kenard Pak's illustrations. They have a flat, layers-of-paper feel that still offers dimension and expression. My favorite page in this story is Sitti and and Lina using stuffed grape leaves as mustaches to act like tough guys. But the whole thing just bursts with charm. From the literal ten ways to hear snow that are full of onomatopoeia, to the diagram of how to stuff grape leaves, to the delightful relationship Lina has with her grandmother, this story offers a lot for a...

Ten Ways to Hear Snow by Cathy Camper and Kenard Pak is a celebration of family traditions and the changing weather. Lina wakes up on the day she's to walk to her grandmother's to make warak enab (a dish similar to dolmas) to find it has snowed over night. As her grandmother is losing her eyesight, Lina wonders if she realizes it has snowed.The act of wondering about how her grandmother might experience snow, Lina's walk turns into an aural exploration. On her way she stops to listen to differen...

“When the world goes quiet, we learn to listen.” I hope this month we remember to listen. This book has a Snowy Day feel and not just because it is snowing. :) Great little read with absolutely beautiful artwork.

On the one hand, this is a count-to-ten book, of course. And then it is about paying attention to nature, how it gets quiet when there is a blanket of snow: What do you hear? How does snow make a sound when you step on it, throw it, shovel it. The quiet of snow is also a sound.Then this is a book about Lina going to (Lebanese) Sitti's (Grandma's) place in an assisted living facility and making warak enab (stuffed grape leaves) with her (and yes, we see how to do it). And we learn Grandma is slow...

Great picture book for elementary school aged kids. Did you know snow makes sounds? See if you can guess them while you learn a little bit about Lebanese culture.

Pak’s illustrations are so pretty; the architecture in the line work; the palette…so tidy, and quiet. This is a picture book you can hand to a lover of design sans words. Fortunately, the words are also a pleasure to the senses. Camper captures the sight and sounds of snow brilliantly. I could recall each sound, each image resonated with the wintry clarity Lina was experiencing.The story is a lovely one, warming in a picture book that successfully translates a crisp, cold day.Lina is eager to he...

When Lina woke up in the morning, snow had fallen and the street was quiet and hushed. Despite the snow, Lina headed out to visit her grandmother. She loved helping her grandmother cook and today was grape leaf day, when they would make warak enab. As Lina walked to her grandma’s, she heard all sorts of noises. There was her neighbor scraping her shovel on the sidewalk. There was the crunch of her own boots in the snow. A blue jay knocked a soft ploompf of snow down from a branch, a quiet sound....

Lovely combination of family tradition, and noticing little things in the world around us!