Winner:
• The Amelia Francis Howard Gibbon Award for Illustration 2010
• The Toronto Public Library First and Best list 2009
• Quill and Quire 15 Books that Mattered 2009
• The Canadian Children's Book Centre Best Books for Kids & Teens, starred selection

Shortlisted:
• The 2011 Blue Spruce Award
• The 2010 Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Picture Book Award
• The Canadian Booksellers Association Libris Children's Picture Book of the Year

Booklist *starred review*
"From Scott's initial, quiet joy on discovering the snowfall to Jim's fist pumping exuberance, the boys' personality differences are marked throughout the book, but their rock-solid friendship is at the heart of the understated, but satisfying story.... This distinctive picture book will find an appreciative audience in the Snow Belt, while inspiring snow envy in warmer climates."

Kirkus
"Reid’s trademark Plasticine artwork gives wonderful depth and texture to the pages, while the details she includes are impressive, a chain-link fence and superhero pajamas among them. Black-and-white ink-and-watercolor panels keep the focus on the main illustrations while also rounding out the story.

Cooperation, teamwork and creative problem solving taken to new levels make this a great choice, no matter what the season."

Hornbook
"...inventive, modern visual storytelling... Reid captures [her characters'] exuberance, and the Plasticine makes it all look real, complete with dustings of snow on the boys’ coats and mittens for a three-dimensional effect."

Canadian Children's Book News
"Barbara Reid knows children well...She also explores another medium in this publication-with ink and watercolour panels effectively interspersed throughout the story, each set of panels escalating to a scene created in plasticine. As with all Reid's books, photographer Ian Crysler skillfully captures the explosion of motion and colour in the artwork depicting the unbridaled joy of children as they burst onto the schoolyard to begin their communion with the snow."

The Toronto Star
"Perfect book, perfect gift, perfect holiday. Barbara Reid's Perfect Snow just about sums it up and begins our list of best books for kids this winter. Reid alternates her inspired plasticine art with black and white cartoon strips, capturing throughout the quirky characters and memorable physicality of kid-life."

The Edmonton Journal
"Reluctant little-boy readers will warm to the action-packed story, and the illustrations are absolutely fantastic."

Canadian Materials ****/4 (four out of four stars)
Highly Recommended
"In Perfect Snow, Reid has shown an uncanny ability to depict emotion and humour in the facial expressions of the characters in her story. Her narrative is, as usual, simple and perfectly appropriate to the age of her audience, without a soupcon of condensation......Reid introduces a new art style using ink and watercolour to create panels of drawings which appear on many of the pages. These drawings insinuate a cheeky humour while enhancing the story by adding bits of the action which do not appear in the text. as well, they often illuminate both character interaction and theme in the story."

Quill and Quire *starred review*
"Although the story is simple, and reminiscent of Ezra Jack Keats classic "A Snowy Day", Reid builds a surprising amount of interest through the skillful interaction of images and text. This book includes a wonderful double page spread of a schoolyard full of brightly dressed children running in the snow, making angels, falling, rolling huge snowballs, and so forth. It makes readers want to hurry out into the snow, or-better yet-get some plasticine and start shaping it themselves."