"Snowman Paul at the Winter Olympics" - a bookwrap

Snowman Paul is setting his sites on being # 1 at the Winter Olypmics.  He just knows he can do it.  But can he really? 

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"Snowman Paul at the Winter Olympics"

Authored by Yossi Lapid

Illustrated by Joanna Pasek

* Age Range:  3-8

* Grade Level:  K-2

* Paperback: 46 pages

* Series: Snowman Paul 

* Publisher: Yosef Lapid: 1 edition ( October 25, 2016 )

* Language: English

Praise 

"Lapid's debut picture book puts a wintry spin on an eternal, favorite childhood dream: Olympic glory...The dynamic, full-spread illustrations of Paul's winter sporting events and the pacing of the story will grab and keep young children's attention...A celebration of winter...that will likely appeal to children who've dreamed...of a big, friendly snowman coming to life." - Kirkus Review

"This is a great, charming collection of stories for young children. A real treasure." - Reader's Favorite

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Unwrapping the book

I love stories driven by a moral compass featuring honesty and integrity.    Snowman Paul decides on his own that he will be participating in the Winter Olympics even though his best human friend Dan tries to dissuade him telling him he's too old and maybe he had better pass on this adventure.  

Paul forges ahead with his plan and reluctantly Dan follows along to keep on eye out for his friend.  The story is written in rhyme making the plot flow easily from page to page.  Kids love rhyming books. 

Readers track Paul as he whizzes down hills while ski-jumping, races at top speed in the speed skating competition, lucks out and wins on the curling rink, cruises on his snowboard while wiping out his competition and glides effortlessly on the luge-run.  He's acing all of the events!  Oh my can Dan believe his eyes and ears? Is Snowman Paul really pulling off all these wins ... really? Something looks very fishy to Dan because his friend's scores are just too good to be true.  Whatever could be happening to make Paul number one each and every event?  Mmmmmm... something is just not right. 

The illustrations are truly amazing.  They are dynamic and almost animated bringing the snowy Olympic scenes to life right before your eyes.  Is Paul cheating as Dan suspects?  Will Dan be brave enough to confront his friend and show him the errors of his ways if it's true?   Dan has to make a difficult decision of what's the right thing to do and then follow through no matter what the consequences may turn out to be. 

  This book is a celebration of winter and all the fine sports that one can get involved in when it snows.  Kids will love all the action and perhaps be inspired that maybe some day they too may want to experience Olympic greatness for themselves.  This book touches on the themes of friendship, truthfulness and doing what is right and honourable.  I highly recommend this book and all the other books in the Snowman Paul Series.  

Storywraps Rating - 5 +++ HUGS!!!!!

Meet the author

 Children will fall in love with Snowman Paul! He is energetic and playful, he has big dreams and he is not afraid to be different. 

Yossi Lapid was born in a small town in Romania where toy stores were absent, but snowmen were abundant. The bright white carpet that covered the ground after the first snow-fall always appeared to him like the blank opening page in a magical book still waiting to be written. In his imagination, the imprints of his small feet would become the first words of many fantastic winter adventures. So, it was inevitable perhaps that he would one day write a children's book about a snowman called Paul. However, it was not inevitable that he would write in rhymes, so he wonders what happened, sometimes.

As a first-time author, Lapid's multi-volume series titled Snowman Paul won the silver medal in the 2016 Moonbeam Award competition in the best picture book series category. Subsequent volumes in 2017 have won Mom's Choice and Reader's Favorite gold medals. Lapid was previously a college professor with a Ph.D. from Colombia University. He has three children and lives with his wife Susan and a little dog named Sasha in New Mexico.

About the illustrator

I'm a freelance illustrator from Poland. My work is based on traditional techniques; watercolor, crayons, ink. My passion is drawing for children. My childhood was all about crayons and books, then I was doing other things for a time – studying, working for a publishing house, taking care of my sons… and then my boys grew up and I discovered I had some free time again. So I returned to crayons and paints. This second beginning happened when I was nearly 40, but there was no particular event to trigger it.

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