Katy and the Big Snow

by Virginia Lee Burton

Virginia Lee Burton (Illustrator)

Katy, a red crawler tractor, can do a lot of things. In the summer she is a bulldozer, in the winter, she turns into a snowplough, waiting and waiting for her chance to be useful. Most of the winters, though, the snowfalls are mild and the town doesn't need Katy. But when the big one finally hits, the entire community is dependent on one little snowplough.

• ISBN10: 0812433815
• ISBN13: 9780812433814
• Publish Date: 1 April 1974 (first published 1 January 1943)
• Publish Status: Out of Print
• Out of Print: 22 March 2022
• Publish Country: US
• Imprint: Perfection Learning
• Format: Hardcover (Library Binding)
• Pages: 36
• Language: English

Reviews

[cherryblossommj]

We read this one within our "Mike Mulligan and More" Storybook Treasury, although I wouldn't mind adding the individual book to our shelf someday. Katy is a very neat read. First recommended to me through P3/4 and then again through AOY0 we've read this one time and again. We've read it anytime of year, but it's best in the winter, when we have just a dusting of snow. Here the girls get to see the excitement and possibility (imagination!) of how life could be if we lived somewhere with lots of snow.

Virginia Lee Burton is an author/illustrator that has definitely earned a place on my keeper list. Slowly but surely we're adding more of her titles to our shelves and I'm loving it! Katy is a special character and one that I'm sure we'll revisit time and again.