Snowflakes
The snowflakes are falling by ones and by twos;
There’s snow on my jacket, and snow on my shoes;
There’s snow on the bushes, and snow on the trees—
It’s snowing on everything now, if you please.
Illustration by Blanche Fisher Wright
First published in The Peter Patter Book of Nursery Rhymes (1918).
You can almost see it — a child stepping out barefoot in boots, tugging at a mitten, just to watch the flakes settle on everything. The words tumble the way snow does — light, playful, unstoppable.
Blanche Fisher Wright’s illustration catches that same spark of wonder. The little one stands there with a sled, snowflakes in their hair, cheeks pink, not quite ready to move. There’s no rush — the whole world seems to have slowed down to watch the snow fall.
