Winter settings in literature
This wordless children's picture book, which inspired an animated movie, is about a young boy and the friend he creates with the help of coal and a tangerine.
What is "The Snowman?"
This story shows that lying to friends can cause more harm than good.
What is "The Necklace?"
You will want to be careful to prevent this for the next few months - the word is a combination of the Greek words for “below” and “heat.”
What is hypothermia?
hypo “below,” and thermē “heat”
Smelly or out of bounds / Related to birds
What is F O U L or F O W L?
You’re on thin __________.
What is "ice?"
In this story, Lucy meets the faun Mr. Tumnus who tells her in his land, it's "... always winter, but never Christmas."
What is The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe?
Poaching is a way to cook eggs and fish, it's also another way of saying this.
What is illegally hunting on someone else's property?
This word's origins are not quite clear... it may have come from the German word blitzartig, meaning “lightninglike," be we associate it with a different type of winter weather.
A musical group / Prohibited
What is B A N D or B A N N E D?
That’s just the tip of the __________.
What is "iceberg?"
In J.K. Rowling’s “Harry Potter” series, this drink can be enjoyed ice cold or served as a foaming warm beverage, perfect for a winter treat.
What is butterbeer?
Ironically, this person's profession did not keep them safe.
Who is Patrick Maloney?
This phenomenon, sometimes seen on clear winter nights, comes from the Latin words meaning "northern dawn."
What are the Aurora borealis?
First, second or third / A kind of guitar
What is B A S E or B A S S?
I’m no good at meeting new people, I can never seem to __________.
What is "break the ice?"
In this book by Susan Beth Pfeffer, the world is plunged into into an early winter when an asteroid knocks the moon into an orbit closer to the earth.
What is Life as We Knew It?
“Ten minutes of determined effort brought another sound to his ears – the most welcome he had ever heard – the muttering and growling of the sea breaking on a rocky shore” is a type of this figurative language.
What is personification?
The name of this Italian treat shares a root with our English word "gelid," meaning very cold or icy, from the Latin word gelare - to freeze.
What is gelato?
Correct / A ceremonial task / To put letters or symbols on paper.
What is R I G H T, R I T E, or W R I T E?
Not in a snowball's __________.
What is "chance in hell?"
In the Laura Ingalls Wilder book, A Long Winter, Almanzo Wilder and his brother are forced to make a dangerous journey over the prairie to locate this precious commodity.
What is wheat?
"They are released every night at seven."
What are the dogs?
You might wear this to keep warm - the word originated in Siberia and means "skin coat."
What is a parka?
To refer to / A vision / A place to build
What is C I T E, S I G H T, or S I T E?
To not talk to someone is to give them the __________.
What is "cold shoulder?"