小男孩彼得，一早醒来发现昨夜下了雪，兴奋地跑到雪地里玩各种游戏，他堆了一个雪人和一个天使。回家前，还把在院子里捏的雪球放进口袋里，想留到明天再玩。回家后彼得泡在浴缸里，还忍不住一再回味，于是睡前去翻口袋，找寻带回来的雪，口袋却是空的，小雪球不见了，让他很失望。上床后又梦到太阳溶融了所有的雪。但他一觉醒来，窗外却正在下着雪。
下雪天可以干什么呢？
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One winter morning Peter woke up and looked out the window. Snow had fallen during the night. It covered everything as far as he could see.
在一个冬天的早上，Peter 醒来后往窗外看了看，雪下了一晚上，视力所及之处都被雪覆盖着。
After breakfast he put on his snowsuit and ran outside. The snow was piled up very high along the street to make a path for walking.
吃完早餐后，他穿上防雪外套跑了出去。沿街的雪也堆得很高，他尝试着弄出一条路径。
Crunch, crunch, crunch, his feet sank into the snow.
He walked with his toes pointing out, like this:
He walked with his toes pointing in, like that:
Crunch, crunch,crunch,
他的脚陷入雪中，他把脚趾头做了不同的形状走路，像图中一样。
Then he dragged his feet s-l-o-w-l-y to make tracks.
And he found something sticking out of the snow that made a new track.
然后他要拖着自己的脚在雪地上画痕迹。
他又发现有个东西突出雪来，留下了新的痕迹。
It was a stick ---
a stick that was just right for smacking a snow-covered tree.
它是一个树枝，像正好被雪覆盖的树一样。
Down fell the snow --- plop!
--- on top of Peter's head.
雪从书上掉下来---PLOP！
掉到了Peter的头上。
He thought it would be fun to join the big boys in their snowball fight,
but he knew he wasn't old enough --- not yet.
他想他可以跟大孩子们一起打雪仗，
但是他知道他还太小。
So he made a smiling snowman, and he made angels.
所以他堆了一个微笑的雪人和一个天使。
He pretended he was a mountain-climber.
He climbed up a great big tall heaping mountain of snow
--- and slid all the way down.
他假装自己是攀岩者。
他爬上了一个堆得很高的雪山，然后又滑下来。
He picked up a handful of snow --- and another, and still another.
He packed it round and firm and put the snowball in his picket for tomorrow.
Then he went into his warm house.
He told his mother all about his adventures while she took off his wet socks.
他捡了少量的雪，又捡了一些，一些一些的堆起来了一个坚固的圆圆的雪球，他把雪球放在了口袋里打算留到明天。于是他回到了暖和的屋里了。
当他妈妈脱掉他的湿袜子时，他把他的探险都告诉了妈妈。
And he thought and thought and thought about them.
他一遍一遍的在想着。
Before he got into bed he looked in his pocket.
His pocket was empty. The snowball wasn't there.
He felt very sad.
在他上床睡觉之前，他看了看自己的口袋，
发现口袋空了，雪球不在了。他感到伤心。
While he slept, he dreamed that the sun had melted all the snow away.
But when he woke up his dream was gone.
The snow was still everywhere.
New snow was falling!
当他入睡后，他梦见太阳出来了，所有的雪都消失了。
但是当他醒了的时候，到处都是雪。又开始下雪了。
After breakfast he called to his friend from across the hall,
and they went out together into the deep, deep snow.
早餐后，他叫了他的好朋友,他们一起向深深地雪中走去。
认识作者
艾兹拉•杰克•季兹（Ezra Jack Keats），1916年出生，在美国布鲁克林长大，一生几乎都居住在纽约市。他的父母为波兰移民，家境贫穷。季兹是犹太人，年轻时饱受歧视，因此他对其他受歧视的种族，具有深刻的同情心。艾兹拉杰克季兹是美国第一位以小黑人为主角的童书创作者，希望能借由图画书消弭种族间的歧视。幸运的是，美国凯迪克奖，并没有因为主角肤色而忽略这位伟大的创作者，将金奖颁给了他的第一本作品《下雪天》。
季兹从小就展现艺术天份，八岁时就为当地的店面画招牌，因此赚得25分美元的报酬。高中时期得奖无数、非常耀眼。第二次世界大战后，他为了精进绘画深度及广度，前往法国巴黎深造，目前在法国第五大道的店面里，仍有许多油画作品被展示。季兹一生都很爱孩子，曾为联合国儿童基金会（UNICEF）代言募款活动，并参与1971年白宫儿童会议。Ezra Jack Keats基金会每年颁发Ezra Jack Keats奖，在于鼓励优秀的童书绘者及新鲜血液。
