The family's freezer held the secret of the snowman until he was shown to the town on a summer day. Grades 1-2.

Building snowmen has always been a seasonal activity, until now! In this short children's story, two brothers set out to prove that building a snowman can be done anytime of the year!

Escalating his battle to keep his crops, Henry White brings his Summer Snowman online to patrol his fields. Little does he know that his desire to create a better scarecrow is just the beginning of his troubles.Just one more day of misadventures of Henry White and Radcliff Green. Where both seem like your typical old "Middle of Nowhere" farmers. But beneath the façade of Midwestern American homesteading, these two rivals are secretly brilliant (and wild!) scientists, dedicated to exploring and controlling the secrets of nature and technology. White and Green both have hidden labs beneath their farms, and an ever-evolving collection of remarkable robots, cyborgs, super-plants, gadgets, supercomputers and more!Attack of the Summer Snowmen is part of the Mildly Mad series of inter-connected adventures, the two "farmers," their minions, and the folks of Turingsburg County experience the excitement, danger, and fun of experiments pushed to the limit!For those interested in STEM education a "State of the Science" Article is provided explaining the history and future of cybernetic technology to help bridge readers from the pages of science fiction to reality.

The first page: "My Snowman quickly rushes by / And I, of course, do wonder why. / He packs his bag out in the hall, / I watch him as he takes it all: / The cloth, the scissors and the strings. / "What will you do with all these things?" ... // Would you like to know what he is up to?

A Bedtime Story. A Personal Monster. Fantasy Invades Reality...and Must be Stopped. When a creature from a bedtime story takes on a life of its own, fantasy invades reality. Patchy's personal monster will devour her, unless her father can teach her to wield the power that created the monster in the first place: the imagination.

Sadie's snowman survives the summer in this compelling story.