The ground remained barren Monday afternoon as snowstorms continued to miss Madison after pasting cities to the north, south, east and west.
But inside, there was a blizzard of white-coated floors and tables as about 30 children made paper snowflakes and enjoyed snow stories at the Madison School District’s Allied Learning Center.
“We could put them on the window so it looks like it’s snowing outside,” JoAnn Savoy, head of the UW- Madison Water Resources Library, suggested to the children.
They happily obliged.
Monday’s event was part of a monthly reading program created by UW-Madison librarians to bring books and learning excitement to Allied Drive, on Madison’s southwest border with Fitchburg, where students post the lowest average state reading test scores in Dane County.