"It is snowing!" writes Mrs. Bell as she begins to tell the story of snow. "Snowflakes have begun to float quietly down. The day is not very cold: it is just above freezing. The snow is rather wet and the flakes are large. Good packing snow! Good snow for snowballs, and snow men, and snow forts."

Snow describes everything that one might wish to know about these white flakes — the way in which they are formed, the types and sizes of snowflakes, how snow is helpful and dangerous to man. In addition, there is an account of snowflake cousins — frost, rime, glaze, sleet, and hail. The book ends with the history of Stella — a typical snowflake — from its birth to the time it falls to earth, where it becomes part of a glacier, or joins the rush of an avalanche, or melts to nourish a grain of cereal that will go into a loaf of bread.

Corydon Bell has illustrated the book with a set of precise and decorative pictures.

From the dust jacket