num_pages: 42
description: There are planes to fly and buses to catch but a child uses the power of words in the form of an invocation to persuade fate to bring her family a snow day  a day slow and unhurried enough to spend at home together. In a spare text that reads as pure song and illustrations of astonishingly beautiful scratchboard art Sidman and Krommes remind us that sometimes if spoken from the heart wishes really can come true. 
language: English
title: Before Morning
publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt