Fair warning. If you pick up Alia’s Snow Day With the Angels by Alida Hall to read to your child tonight, you may need a moment at the end. Not because it is sad. It is not sad. It is one of the most joyful children’s books published this year. But it is also a book about a child watching two beloved friends drift back up into a glowing winter sky and pressing her mitten to her heart. And if
With so many children’s books published every year, it can be hard to know which ones are worth the time and the shelf space. Here are five reasons why Alia’s Snow Day With the Angels by Alida Hall is one worth recommending. 1. It gives children a reason to be kind — without telling them to be. The angels in the story do not reward Alia because she did something good. They come to her because her heart already shines.
Today is the day I have been working toward for a long time. Alia’s Snow Day With the Angels is officially published and out in the world. I have been thinking about what to write here for weeks. I kept trying to write something clever or formal and it never felt right. So I am going to say the simple thing instead. I wrote this book because I remember what it felt like to have a story read to
After years of reading to her own children at bedtime, Hall has written the story she always wanted to give them. Alida Hall did not set out to write a spiritual book. She set out to write the kind of story that makes a child’s face light up at bedtime. What she created in Alia’s Snow Day With the Angels turned out to be both. The book tells the story of a young girl named Alia who steps outside on
In a market flooded with children’s books, Alida Hall’s debut stands out for one simple reason — it gives children a reason to be good. There is no shortage of children’s picture books about magic. But very few of them answer the question that every thoughtful parent eventually asks when reading one to their child: why does the magic happen to this child? In Alia’s Snow Day With the Angels, Alida Hall answers that question clearly and beautifully. The angels
Author Alida Hall, a master’s degree holder in analytical science, delivers a luminous debut picture book that reminds children — and the adults who read to them — that kindness opens doors to the extraordinary. Alida Hall spent years reading bedtime stories to her children, watching their faces light up in the soft glow of a lamp, and thinking about what made a truly great children’s book. Not just a story that occupied their minds before sleep, but one that
