Snowmen at Night by Caralyn Buehner

Amy Roswell

When a boy notices that the snowman he built looks quite different the next morning, he wonders what his snowman must have been up to overnight. His imagination takes the reader on an amusing journey of what snowmen really do when everyone else is sleeping.

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