Little Hearts in the Snow
Out October, 2025
Book description
Julia loves winter, except for one thing: she misses her usual forest friends, who can’t come out to play during the cold season. When she discovers that animals have trouble finding food in the snow, she sets out on a journey to bring a present to her book-loving friend Bertrand the bear. But pulling her heavy sled through snowy woods proves impossible alone. Could little heart-shaped tracks be a sign that help—and maybe a new friend—are near?
With sparklingly vivid illustrations that capture the magic of exploring a winter wonderland, this cozy, warmhearted tribute to the frosty time of the year—and to the delights of friendship and reading—will have kids eager to make snow angels of their own, as well as to curl up afterwards with a book and a sweet treat.
The back matter includes information on how animals survive when the weather turns icy, along with a recipe for Bertrand’s winter specialty that the whole family can bake together.
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More Julia and Bertrand adventures!
Little Hearts in the Snow is the third book in the Julia and Bertrand series. Julia first meets Bertrand in How to Catch a Bear Who Loves to Read, when she forgets her book in the forest by her house and returns to find it missing! Her search for her book leads her to the cozy treehouse of a bear named Bertrand, who loves to read.
In chatting with Bertrand, Julia learns that he gets most of his books from behind the library at night, where the local librarians are kind enough to leave boxes of old books outside. In their next adventure, A Starlit Trip to the Library, Julia and her other animal friends sail to the library with Bertrand under twinkling consellations on a quest for a bedtime story.
A book within a book
When we read, we enter a world that is both familiar and strange, and in every story in the Julia and Bertrand series, there is a book within the book that looks both the same as and different from the book itself.
Here is a picture of Dennis the deer peering at the book within the book in Little Hearts in the Snow.
“To pass through winter, there is nothing better than a good book, a taste of sweetness and the company of a friend.”
- Bertrand, the bear who loves to read
Educational back matter
Two additional pages at the back of the book describe the strategies of different animals for surviving winter as well as the recipe for Bertrand’s winter specialty—big soft ginger cookies!
