{"id":251,"date":"2008-11-03T23:31:45","date_gmt":"2008-11-04T03:31:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/03\/review-of-millie-in-the-snow-by-alexander-steffensmeier\/"},"modified":"2008-11-12T23:07:06","modified_gmt":"2008-11-13T03:07:06","slug":"review-of-millie-in-the-snow-by-alexander-steffensmeier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=251","title":{"rendered":"Review of Millie in the Snow, by Alexander Steffensmeier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image254\" height=\"240\" alt=\"millie_in_the_snow.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/millie_in_the_snow.jpg\" \/>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Millie in the Snow<\/em><\/p>\n<p>by Alexander Steffensmeier<\/p>\n<p>Walker &#038; Company, New York, 2008.\u00a0 First published in Germany in 2007 as <em>Lieselotte im Schnee.<\/em>\u00a0 28 pages.<\/p>\n<p>Starred Review<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.walkeryoungreaders.com\/\">http:\/\/www.walkeryoungreaders.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Millie&#8217;s back!\u00a0 Hooray!<\/p>\n<p>Millie the bovine mail carrier stars in a new silly story, this time about Christmas.\u00a0 Originally written in Germany, I was delighted by the pictures, bringing back memories of German Christmases.<\/p>\n<p>Millie no longer ambushes the mail carrier.\u00a0 Now she assists him.\u00a0 At Christmastime, they are busier than ever.\u00a0 However, Millie has trouble finding her way home in the deep snow, and the packages lose their tags.<\/p>\n<p>Once again, the hilarity of this book is primarily contained in the amazingly expressive illustrations.\u00a0 As a bonus, along with the exuberantly illustrated main story, there are multiple antics taking place in the background.<\/p>\n<p>Millie is not your typical cow, and this is not your typical Christmas book.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0802798004\/sonderbooksco-20\" target=\"outside\"><font color=\"#0b76ae\">Buy from Amazon.com<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Find this review on the main site at:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Picture_Books\/millie_in_the_snow.html\">www.sonderbooks.com\/Picture_Books\/millie_in_the_snow.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Millie in the Snow by Alexander Steffensmeier Walker &#038; Company, New York, 2008.\u00a0 First published in Germany in 2007 as Lieselotte im Schnee.\u00a0 28 pages. Starred Review http:\/\/www.walkeryoungreaders.com\/ Millie&#8217;s back!\u00a0 Hooray! Millie the bovine mail carrier stars in a new silly story, this time about Christmas.\u00a0 Originally written in Germany, I was delighted by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,48,14,17,15,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animal-characters","category-christmas","category-delightfully-silly","category-humorous","category-picture-book-review","category-starred-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}