Winter Days, Spring Days

Winter Days, Spring Days is actually two concept board books in one. The idea is that you are to read about one season until you reach the book’s middle (where you’ll encounter an upside-down page), and then you are to flip the book over and begin again, now reading about a new season. The text for each season begins and ends with the words, “every season has its fun”. In between these two sentences, Kate Colley uses simple rhyming text to enumerate some of the fun things that can be experienced during the season in question. For instance, winter offers opportunities for making snowmen, skating, skiing, tobogganing and drinking hot chocolate while spring can mean biking, skateboarding, and playing on slides and swings as well as opportunities for observing returning birds and insects.

Dale Nigel Goble’s digitally created illustrations are simple and engaging while also being gender and racially inclusive. His choice of colours effectively reflects those that predominate during the different seasons.

Winter Days, Spring Days would make a fine home or institutional purchase and should be paired with Summer Days, Fall Days.