BOBSLEIGH: (British) a mechanically steered and braked sledge, typically for two or four people, used for racing down an ice-covered run
SLED: another term for sledge
SLEDGE: (British) a vehicle on runners for conveying loads or passengers over snow or ice, often pulled by draught animals. e.g. “a dog sledge”
SLEIGH: a sledge drawn by horses or reindeer, especially one used for passengers.
TOBOGGAN: a long, light, narrow vehicle, typically on runners, used for sliding downhill over snow or ice
Illustrations of snowy landscapes quite often feature yellow skies.
‘Town Mouse and Country Mouse’ short stories written by Barbara Hayes Illustrated by Philip Mendoza (1898-1973) Once Upon A Time magazine 1970Sledding and Digging Out The cover illustration for The Saturday Evening Post magazine, January 28, 1961Martta Wendelin 1893 -1986 FinnishArthur Thiele (1860-1936)THE FARMER’S WIFE MAGAZINE, FEBRUARY 1923, G. GARDNER RICHARDS COVERWoman’s World Magazine Jan 1920Granny’s Birds by Hayes, Russian, 1947Sleigh Ride (1950’s) by Eyvind EarleLes quatre lapins et les echarpes fantasticques by Matsuko Watari illustrated by Iku DekuneAustrian Christmas picture book c1960In Animalville 1939. ‘Care to ride?’ asks Cappy Kitten. Also used on the cover of 1942 To Storyland Stories and Verses Childrens Coloring Book.Postcard by Gino Boccasile, circa 1949
A young boy who is in a new town and doesn’t have much, but with the help of a loving community he discovers the joys of his first snowy day.
On the day it snows, Gabo sees kids tugging sleds up the hill, then coasting down, whooping all the while. Gabo wishes he could join them, but his hat is too small, and he doesn’t have boots or a sled.
But he does have warm and welcoming neighbors in his new town who help him solve the problem!
Frosty The Snow Man, a Little Golden Book illustrated by Corinne Malvern, retold by Annie North Bedford, published in 1951 by Golden Press, New YorkFarmer’s Wife Magazine Feb 1923 G Gardner RickardFEB 11 1922 THE COUNTRY GENTLEMAN magazine WINTER – SLEIGHVintage Christmas card. Horse pulls sleigh through the snowWinter-time illustration by Gyo Fujikawa for A Child’s Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson, publisher Grosset & Dunlap, 1957.The Children’s Book of Trees Leonard L. Knott (1949) back coverSuchard Velma, the exquisite eating chocolate, anonymous illustrator, c1915 Illustration by Racey Helps for ‘Happy Landing’ in Collins Children’s Annual 1958 William Roger Snow 1888 for The Three Bears. (He used a number of pseudonyms and in this case he was going by Richard Andre.)Louis Wain ‘Bringing Home the Yule Log at Christmas Time in Catland’ c.1910For ‘Across Africa In The Rainy Season’ in The Wide World Magazine May 1920 illustration by W.H. HollowayPauline Baynes… (The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe, C S Lewis, 1954)Louis Wain, The Tabby Toboggan Club 1898Edward Willis Redfield (American, 1869-1965)Cover by American illustrator Harrison Cady for People’s Home Journal February 1928Arthur Getz (1913 – 1996), sledding 1955The Youth’s Companion May 1928 cover art Perry Mason Co Boston Massachusetts‘The Royal Sleigh ride’ by Otto Edelman (1839-1926 ) Dutch painterCarl Kronberger (Austrian, 1841-1921) Nobody At HomeCarl Larsson, watercolor, Sweden, Kersti on a sleighAnton Franciscus Pieck (19 April 1895 – 24 November 1987)Julian de Miskey (1898-1976) 1928 Christmas and Beatrix Potter Beatrix Potter sledGermany circa 1905, Happy Saint Valentine postcard Lennart Helje, Swedish Artist b. in Lima, Sweden Paulina Garwatowska – The Tales of Hans Christian Andersen Uwe Hänstch – The Snow QueenUwe Hänstch – The Snow QueenMiriam Story Hurford 1936Leonid Zolotarev – The Snow QueenLeonid Zolotarev – The Snow QueenCharles Robinson for a story called “The Remarkable Rocket” from “The Happy Prince and Other Stories” by Oscar Wilde (1913). She might easily be mistaken for Jadis or The Snow Queen, but this is the “Russian Princess”.Ute Simon – The Snow QueenAnton Franciscus Pieck (19 April 1895 – 24 November 1987) sled rideIlonka Karasz 1949Edna Eicke, The New Yorker – March 1, 1952
From the author of the multi-award-winning and bestselling How To Bee comes an intense and thrilling new adventure.
‘We’re gonna starve if we stay here,’ Emery said. ‘If we’re gonna go, best go now.’ And he said it like going was something easy. Like all we have to do is walk away.
Ella and her brother Emery are alone in a city that’s starving to death. If they are going to survive, they must get away, upcountry, to find Emery’s mum. But how can two kids travel such big distances across a dry, barren, and dangerous landscape? Well, when you’ve got five big doggos and a dry-land dogsled, the answer is you go mushing. But when Emery is injured, Ella must find a way to navigate them through rough terrain, and even rougher encounters with desperate people…
The Call of the Wild, Cover by Roberto Lemmi 1966
Header illustration: Ronald Lampitt for Ladybird Artists’ Advent Calendar, ‘Sledges’
CONTEMPORARY FICTION SET IN AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND (2023)
On paper, things look fine. Sam Dennon recently inherited significant wealth from his uncle. As a respected architect, Sam spends his days thinking about the family needs and rich lives of his clients. But privately? Even his enduring love of amateur astronomy is on the wane. Sam has built a sustainable-architecture display home for himself but hasn’t yet moved into it, preferring to sleep in his cocoon of a campervan. Although they never announced it publicly, Sam’s wife and business partner ended their marriage years ago due to lack of intimacy, leaving Sam with the sense he is irreparably broken.
Now his beloved uncle has died. An intensifying fear manifests as health anxiety, with night terrors from a half-remembered early childhood event. To assuage the loneliness, Sam embarks on a Personal Happiness Project:
