A boy leaps out of bed and bundles up from
head to toe in preparation for a cold, snowy day. "But
what if I put on/All of that stuff/And I get outside/And I'm
not warm enough? I might get cold,/I might get wet./But that's
not as bad/As my day could get…." The watercolor
illustrations extend the text to create a story of a child
engaging in various gut-wrenching and hilarious difficulties as
he worries about the dangers he might encounter. His
imagination leads him to run and fall, slip and slide, tumble
over backwards, and get buried in snow. His nose runs, his
boogers freeze, he trips and falls and rolls down a hill, off
of a cliff and into the sky and right into space, rocketing
back to Earth, where he lands in a lake, freezes, and must wait
until spring to thaw. The boy then decides not to go outside
but to sit and sip his hot chocolate by the fire, where it is
warm and certainly safer, unless, "…a hot-chocolate
marshmallow/Gets stuck up my nose…." A
laugh-out-loud tale.
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