The Snowy Day
by Ezra Jack Keats
Picture book · ages 3–8 · grades K–3 · 32 pages · 1992
Why we'd hand it over
The ur-text of childhood snow play—Keats' collage art and minimalist text let the child's imagination fill every gap, and it holds up as a quiet, unsentimentalized masterpiece.
What parents said
Gerda Muller is an amazing author and illustrator, who last I checked, is 100 years old and still working.