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| Author: | Alison H [ Fri Jan 08, 2010 9:25 am ] |
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Just trying to be topical, at least for those of us in the British Isles 
.Laura Ingalls Wilder's are the books which immediately came to mind for me, especially The Long Winter in which the whole community's cut off from the outside world for several months. & in Heidi, IIRC (it's years since I last read it), it's accepted that individual households'll be cut off for much of the winter every year. Kind of puts not being able to get my car out into perspective! | |
| Author: | Lottie [ Fri Jan 08, 2010 10:08 am ] |
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Arthur Ransome's Winter Holiday is the first one that came to my mind. There's also Malcolm Saville's Strangers at Snowfell. The Vicarage Children by Lorna Hill has some snowy scenes, so I expect the sequel, More about Mandy, (which I've yet to read!  ) also
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| Author: | cestina [ Fri Jan 08, 2010 10:19 am ] |
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A lightweight but fun romance: Anne McCaffrey's A Stitch in Snow | |
| Author: | Sarah_G-G [ Fri Jan 08, 2010 10:36 am ] |
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Hester's Story by Adele Geras is very snowy and Christmas-periody. | |
| Author: | M [ Fri Jan 08, 2010 11:20 am ] |
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Fell Farm at Christmas by Marjorie Lloyd has some snowy adventures. For those who don't know it, it's the second in a series of three about four children on holiday in the Lake District. | |
| Author: | judithR [ Fri Jan 08, 2010 12:11 pm ] |
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There's are Maragert Baker (Lincoln, Miranda & Pinks) but I can't remember the title. Also the beginning of The Nine Tailors (DLS) and Off With His Head (Ngaio Marsh) & Phillis Garrad's Nancy- Canadian Schoolgirl has some good wintery scenes. Edited for spelling And edited to add the works of Chris Bonnington, Scott of the Antarctic and the Apsley-Gerrard biography (have forgotten the title) | |
| Author: | Abi [ Fri Jan 08, 2010 12:14 pm ] |
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Quite a few of those books by that Elinor Brent-Dyer woman seem to be snowy...  I love Winter Rose by Patricia Mckillip, which has a wonderfully wintery feeling - chilly and cosy by turns and with a lo-ovely hero (it's a novelisation of the Tam Lin ballad for those who know it, but it's far enough off that to be enjoyed by those who don't). | |
| Author: | JB [ Fri Jan 08, 2010 2:27 pm ] |
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Abi wrote:
Quite a few of those books by that Elinor
Brent-Dyer woman seem to be snowy...
Stepsisters for Lorna has a lot of snow in Britain with the school closed for a week. Agatha Christie's Sittaford Mystery has suspects snowed up on Dartmoor. Peter's Room is a snowy Christmas with the Marlows Gondalling away by the open fire in the barn. | |
| Author: | fraujackson [ Fri Jan 08, 2010 2:45 pm ] |
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I've always liked 'Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow' (Peter Hoeg) - Smilla struck me as a bit of a CS girl - maybe that's why I enjoy it. The Shipping News has lots of good and bad snow. Joyce Carol Oates 'Black Girl, White Girl' has snow scenes - and is well worth reading anyway 
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| Author: | ChubbyMonkey [ Fri Jan 08, 2010 5:17 pm ] |
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I can't think of any of mine that have snow in - except my WWI ones. Oh, and of course the CS. *waits for someone to mention a book I have and embarrass me* | |
| Author: | clair [ Fri Jan 08, 2010 5:40 pm ] |
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Rosamund Pilcher's Winter Solstice has lots of snow in it too
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| Author: | fraujackson [ Fri Jan 08, 2010 5:40 pm ] |
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ChubbyMonkey wrote:
I can't think of any of mine that have snow in -
except my WWI ones. Oh, and of course the CS. *waits for someone to
mention a book I have and embarrass me* Doesn't it snow in What Katy did at School ? (Am guessing from your sig that you're a fan... )
Where do they skate with chairs ? Is that Katy or the March sisters ? (Have always wanted to do this !) | |
| Author: | ChubbyMonkey [ Fri Jan 08, 2010 6:04 pm ] |
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Very possibly it does! I haven't read it for ages and ages though; my sig is my favourite prank in a school story, though, so it stands out! | |
| Author: | Nightwing [ Fri Jan 08, 2010 8:14 pm ] |
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I actually made a list of my top 5 "snowy winter" books last year! They were (in no particular order): 1. Hatchet Winter by Gary Paulsen, a children's adventure book about a boy having to survive a harsh Canadian winter in the wilderness 2. Child-44 by Tom Rob Smith, which is a murder mystery set in Russia, although pretty much every book set in Russia has a whole lot of snow in it 3. Moominland Midwinter by Tove Jansson, which I think has to be the most fun winter book ever 4. The Snow Queen by Hans Christian Andersen, which I still think is one of the most beautiful stories I've ever read and 5. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrbe by C. S. Lewis, of course! (Although it confused me as a child, because Christmas here is very much a summer holiday!) | |
| Author: | Amanda M [ Fri Jan 08, 2010 9:35 pm ] |
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The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper has quite a plot line which involves lots of snow falling and having to dig themselves out of drifts. It also has food shortages as the village it's set in is cut off. It's also very atmospherically written. ETA There's also the science-fiction book "The Snow" by Adam Roberts where it doesn't stop snowing at all and details how the survivors manage after such a catastrophe. I'm getting to understand the feeling of not seeing any end in sight as far as snow goes! | |
| Author: | cestina [ Fri Jan 08, 2010 10:14 pm ] |
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Nightwing wrote:
4. The Snow Queen by Hans Christian Andersen, which I still think is one of the most beautiful stories I've ever read Slightly OT - I am doing a lovely jigsaw of a scene from this at the moment - The Arrival of the Snow Queen. Incredibly difficult because the picture is done in foil and each piece changes colour as you turn it in the light but so beautiful and just right for these winter days. Can only be done in the clearest of daylight though. (Not sure I haven't posted this elsewhere already - if so, apologies  )
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| Author: | fraujackson [ Sat Jan 09, 2010 9:40 am ] |
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cestina wrote:
Nightwing wrote:
4. The Snow Queen by Hans Christian Andersen, which I still think is one of the most beautiful stories I've ever read Slightly OT - I am doing a lovely jigsaw of a scene from this at the moment - The Arrival of the Snow Queen. Incredibly difficult because the picture is done in foil and each piece changes colour as you turn it in the light but so beautiful and just right for these winter days. Is this a Ravensburger puzzle with a lot of lovely gentian blue and scarlet in it as well ? I got one as a present when I was about 7 and it remains my very favourite puzzle and one of my 'best' presents (Have been wanting to re-do it myself ut it's in my father's loft.) Can you still get silvered puzzles ? I love them ! Another book - to justify the puzzle-eulogy....Box of Delights by Masefield. There's a gorgeous (and very snowy) 1980s BBC adaptation as well. | |
| Author: | cestina [ Sat Jan 09, 2010 10:47 am ] |
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Oh Box of Delights completely passed me by! I've ordered the DVD.... Apologies for still OT - it's not a Ravensburger, no make on it at all, but does have gentian blue and splashes of scarlet. I'll post an image when it's done (if ever). I have a couple of other foil puzzles but I had no idea they would prove so tricky! I'd love to see yours one day.....
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| Author: | fraujackson [ Sat Jan 09, 2010 2:43 pm ] |
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cestina wrote:
Oh Box of Delights completely passed me by! I've
ordered the DVD.... Apologies for still OT - it's not a Ravensburger, no make on it at all, but does have gentian blue and splashes of scarlet. I'll post an image when it's done (if ever). I have a couple of other foil puzzles but I had no idea they would prove so tricky! I'd love to see yours one day..... Enjoy the B.O.D. - it's gorgeous. Really proper telly
I'd love to see all the foil puzzles ! Will ask my Dad to bring mine if he's ever in the vicinity. If you like Box of Delights, you might like Tom's Midnight Garden (Philippa Pearce.) It's got a snowy skating scene in it as well... [goes off to type foil puzzles into ebay...] | |
| Author: | cestina [ Sat Jan 09, 2010 3:31 pm ] |
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Staying a bit OT - for anyone else who fancies the DVD of The Box of Delights it's currently on sale on line at HMV for £4.99 as opposed to around £15 on Play.com and Amazon.....free postage too
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| Author: | Carys [ Sun Jan 10, 2010 11:26 am ] |
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The Siege by Helen Dunmore is about the first winter of Leningrad being surrounded by the Nazi's in WW2, it may not be the happiest read in parts but I enjoyed it and there is a lot of snow! | |
| Author: | Vikki [ Sun Jan 10, 2010 7:38 pm ] |
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Amanda M wrote:
The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper has quite a
plot line which involves lots of snow falling and having to dig themselves
out of drifts. It also has food shortages as the village it's set in is
cut off. It's also very atmospherically
written. I've been meaning for days to dig out my copy of this, because it's set in the village I live in, and like everywhere else, we have a lot of snow at the moment...... | |
| Author: | Emma A [ Mon Jan 11, 2010 10:53 am ] |
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Winter Holiday would be my first choice, too, but I usually re-read it when feeling ill, because of Nancy's mumps! The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula le Guin is set on a wintry world, called Winter. There are some really good skiiing scenes at the start of M M Kaye's Death in Kashmir, and I like Agatha Christie's Poirot story The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding, which has some snowy scenes. | |
| Author: | Mel [ Mon Jan 11, 2010 10:52 pm ] |
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There is also Seal Morning by Rowena Farre where they are snowed up in Sutherland for months every winter. | |
| Author: | Kathy_S [ Tue Jan 12, 2010 1:50 am ] |
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My first picks would also have been Winter Holiday and The Long Winter (and other volumes of Laura Ingalls Wilder). Some others: *Jennie D. Lindquist, The Little Silver House, has the sort of snow over which one waxes nostalgic. Set about a hundred years ago in New Hampshire; classic GO. *Marie McSwigan, Snow Treasure, in which sledding schoolchildren help smuggle Norway's gold away from the Nazis. *Marion Zimmer Bradley, Darkover series. This world has lots of snow. For plot-critical examples, see the Free Amazons trilogy (The Shattered Chain, Thendara House, City of Sorcery.) *Ellis Peters, The Virgin in the Ice. Brother Cadfael series; not the only volume with snow but it's the first that comes to mind. *Virginia Eggersten Sorensen, Miracles on Maple Hill. That maple sugar production definitely involves snowy weather. *Anne McCaffrey & Elizabeth Ann Scarborough, Powers that Be, Power Lines, Power Play. Fantasy set on sentient world settled by Inuit & Irish. Snocle (or however the snowmobile equivalent was spelled) is the only practical transport for most of the year, unless you are a selkie. ETA: Oops! How could I forget the dogsleds? | |
| Author: | judithR [ Tue Jan 12, 2010 9:06 am ] |
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Jenny Overton's Nightwatch Winter. And funnily enough I was thinking about the Darkover novels last Saturday. | |
| Author: | ammonite [ Sat Jan 16, 2010 9:27 pm ] |
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For me it is Winter Holiday and Fell Farm for Christmas, whcih I started to read again the other day. We were watching the Lion, the Withc and The Wardrobe on tv the other day after it had snowed and there was entirely to much snow. Other ones with snowy links include the Snow Queen by Mercedes Lackey and LOTR also has snow in it going over (or trying to) the pass at Caeradras (?) | |
| Author: | Miss Di [ Wed Jan 20, 2010 1:56 am ] |
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Funny, for some reason I am doing a Darkover read at the moment - and finding them a bit frustrating read back to back. I wish I could find a time line so I know elapsed time between books - I keep feeling tho' that it was whatever MZB wanted it to be (a bit like the way ages change in EBDs universe perhaps?) | |
| Author: | Margaret [ Sun Jan 24, 2010 9:36 am ] |
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Hope I'm not too late to join in, but Winter Holiday and Rosamund Pilcher's Winter Solstice would be my first two picks, but "The Frozen Lake" by Elizabeth Edmondson is good. Dark in places, but not too much so. About a Christmas in the Lake District the year Windermere froze - among other things. | |
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