The Twelve Days of Christmas in Wisconsin by erin eitter kono (Sterling 2007)
Welcome to the 12 Days of Christmas in Wisconsin! Ready to greet you are 9 snowmobilers, 8 cranes a-whooping, 7 planes a-swooping, 6 roadside giants...and much more from the Badger State.
Jake is so excited that his cousin Emma is finally coming to visit him in Wisconsin that he sends her a letter and one of these VERY unusual gifts for each of the twelve days before her arrival. Lucky readers are in for a wild Christmas countdown!
School Library Journal
PreS-Gr 2-Using a similar format to Jean Cassels's The Twelve Days of Christmas in Louisiana(Sterling, 2007), this title uses the formula of the familiar song to present facts about Wisconsin. A child writes to his cousin, telling her all about his state, and sends her related objects. Christmas is secondary to the state sights and lore-two roving Ducks (amphibious vehicles used to explore the Dells of the Wisconsin River), three huge fish (the 300-pound sturgeon found in Lake Winnebago), nine snowmobilers, and so on. The epistolary format is fresh, and the illustrations are childlike and appealing.-Virginia Walter, University of California, Los Angeles
Now in its Sixth Printing!
