The Snowy Day, Part 1

By: Ezra Jack Keats

Adapted by Nessa Dee to fit our personal account of the snowy day in central Texas.

One winter morning Audrie and Finn woke up and looked out the window. Sleet was falling from the clouds. It almost covered the flowerbed enough to make it look white. Before even eating breakfast Audrie and Finn put on their jackets and cowboy boots and ran outside. The sleet was piled very high along the fence which warranted the taking of a billion pictures because, for Texans, this amount of the white stuff is pretty amazing.

Crunch, crunch, crunch, their feet didn’t really sink into snow, but they did get enough slush stuck to the bottom of their shoes which meant yet another picture.

Little did they know that this was only the beginning of their snowy day…