Wintry Fiction Has the Cold in Common
As a children’s librarian, I spend a fair amount of time talking about seasons: What’s your favorite season? —Summer! I like summer too. What do you like about summer? Is it cold in the summer? —No, silly! The summer is hot. The winter is cold. My favorite season is fall, but with fall come and gone for the year, we may as well welcome winter. And besides, there’s also a lot to love about our new weather: it gets cold, sure, but it can also be cozy; the snow can be inconvenient, but also very pretty. Perhaps it is precisely that contrast between severity and comfort that…