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When the wind is howling and my windows are covered in frost, there’s nothing I like more than curling up with a good book and a steaming cup of Miro’s Candy Cane Cocoa. The Snow Cat is a perfect book for those cold winter nights, because it makes me appreciate the warmth of my cozy chair much more after reading sentences like “The shutters clattered, the windows rattled, and the wind dove down the chimney so sharply that the ashes heaped at the bottom of the big wood stove chased each other around in little gray circles of confusion.” Brr!

Elsie is a little girl who lives by herself at the edge of the wood. She gets very lonely during the winter—so lonely that she prays for a cat to keep her company. Imagine how delighted she is when God sends down a huge, fluffy, white cat. But this cat is a little bit unusual…it’s a cat made out of snow, with icicles for teeth and hailstones for eyes! Elsie and the snow cat spend the whole day playing in the woods. She even makes snow mice and snow fish sticks to feed her new pet. But when night falls, and the snowy woods start to get dark and scary, God tells Elsie that she’s not allowed to take the snow cat inside. What happens next surprised me so much that I dropped my snuggly afghan!

Now, if you’ll excuse me, I have a huge mug of hot cocoa to finish!