Children's Literature
- Ken Marantz and Sylvia Marantz
"After all the flowers are gone/ Snowflakes fall." MacLachan's carefully crafted free verse begins with the falling of the flakes, with the repeated refrain, "No two the same—/ All beautiful." Across the double pages, Kellogg's illustrations naturalistically and energetically follow the falling flakes, from daylight into night shadows and then, in morning light, to the fun in the snow. Finally, in a message of hope, the snow melts, the rain falls, and flowers will bloom again. As noted in the author and illustrator notes related to the Sandy Hook school disaster, "...we remember the children—/ No two the same—/ All beautiful.
