From Mumsket, page 65: | Winter wrested the forest again. The snow drifted down upon the wilderness like a blanket. Large, cottony flakes glided gently on the currents of the breeze, and finally lighted on anything that broke their fall. The flakes had begun as rain. Turned to sleet and finally to snow within the first half hour. The smaller flakes were now being covered by the large ones which were falling thickly upon the forest. Pure white snow outlined the bare tree limbs and bowed them deeply groundward. At some point, the snow rolled off the limbs and crashed to the forest floor in great piles. Occasionally, a tree, moisture expanding within its trunk, would actually explode with a shot. |
Comments are closed.
|
AuthorD. Ed. Hoggatt is an award-winning fourth grade teacher. Click Titles to Order Now
Archives
July 2017
RECOMMENDED READING
Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko
Because of Mr. Terupt by Rob Buyea Charlotte's Web by E. B. White Chippin Cleats by D. Ed. Hoggatt Crumbling Spirit by D. Ed. Hoggatt Echo by Pam Muñoz Ryan Hatchet by Gary Paulsen Holes by Louis Sachar Loser by Jerry Spinelli Mumsket by D. Ed. Hoggatt Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse Out of the Wind by D. Ed. Hoggatt Petey by Ben Mikaelsen Ramona the Pest by Beverly Cleary Stone Fox by John Reynolds Gardiner There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom by Louis Sachar Touching Spirit Bear by Ben Mikaelsen Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls Yankee Girl by Mary Ann Rodman |