Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Lower Grades (LG K-3)
Book Level
6.1
Points
0.5
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
2971
Points per Word
0.000168
Page Count
32
Points per Page
0.015625
Description
Twelve poems draw readers through the first whiff of winter sending tundra swans migrating to warmer climates to the humble, unlikely first observers of spring's arrival. Sidebars include interesting facts about winter's effect on nature.