Now I See Winter by Mac Barnett

From multi-award winning, New York Times bestselling duo Mac Barnett and Jon Klassen, Now I See Winter is one in a unique quartet of board books that playfully shows the changing seasons through a child’s eyes.

The house. The tree. The garden. Me.

Sparse and rhythmic text invites readers to explore a farm setting through different seasons, gently introducing everyday words. Envisioned as a set that also can be read as standalone stories, each of the four books in this series has identical text but a different visual treatment to show the time of year. In winter, the tree is bare, snow falls from the sky, a sweet treat is a candy cane and the perfect hat is one that keeps you warm. Now I See Winter celebrates all the wonderful things about the season from a kid’s point of view -and why it’s their favourite time of year.

About the Author:

Mac Barnett was named the 2025-2026 National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature by the Library of Congress and is a New York Times-bestselling author of stories for children. His work has been translated into more than 30 languages and sold more than 5 million copies worldwide. Mac’s books have won many prizes, including two Caldecott Honors, three New York Times/New York Public Library Best Illustrated Awards, three E.B. White Read Aloud Awards, the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, Germany’s Jugendliteraturpreis, China’s Chen Bochui International Children’s Literature Award, The Netherlands’ Silver Griffel, and Italy’s Premio Orbil. He is the co-creator, with Jon Klassen, of “Shape Island,” a stop-motion animated series on Apple TV+, based on their best-selling Shapes series of picture books.

Jon Klassen is the New York Times-bestselling author and illustrator of several books, including the iconic I Want My Hat Back, which was named a Theodor Seuss Geisel Honor Book, a New York Times Book Review Best Illustrated Children’s Book of the Year, and a Publishers Weekly Best Children’s Book of the Year. The second Hat book, This Is Not My Hat, won the Caldecott Medal and became a New York Times bestseller. His most recent book, The Skull, was a #1 New York Times bestseller, earning six starred reviews and a piece in the New York Times Book Review in which Ransom Riggs refers to Jon as both “the dean of deadpan” and a “national treasure.” He is the co-creator, with Mac Barnett, of “Shape Island,” a stop-motion animated series on Apple TV+, based on their best-selling Shapes series of picture books.

14 Apr 2026
 

Now I See Winter by Mac Barnett ISBN 9781761639333