An online friend recently recommended Jane Chelsea Aragon's Salt Hands, another picture book featuring the interaction between humans and deer, and having found it deeply satisfying - on both a visual and narrative level - I immediately sought out other books by the author.

Winter Harvest was the only other of Aragon's titles I could find at my public library. Published the year before Salt Hands, it features a young girl who, together with her father, feeds a family of deer during the hard winter months. The simple narrative, when paired with Leslie Baker's beautiful watercolor illustrations, makes for a lovely, quiet bedtime story. The cool winter scenes have a luminous quality that communicates the shadowy mystery of nighttime in the woods, just as the warmer indoor scenes convey a sense of security and family love. Recommended to anyone who likes animal-story picture books, or who enjoyed Salt Hands. ( )