Well… not Snow t’be sure. But I just got his new book of essays, Other Colors, and it contains at least 3 pieces that make excellent reading-out-loud material: “I’m Not Going To School”, which is in the voice of his daughter Rüya and lacks the funny ending of Silverstein’s like-titled piece; “Rüya and Us”; and “When Rüya is Sad”. I say “at least” because I just opened the book at random when I was with my daughter and happened on this trio. (Sylvia was into it enough that when I finished one piece she would ask to hear the next.)

Update: On further reading, it seems like these pieces are among the short sketches he wrote for the humor magazine Oküz, and that several of the others in this group would also be good for reading to kids.

Update, the next day: Wow! Sylvia asked to hear these three pieces again today and the second reading was just wonderful! She’s been thinking about them overnight and was asking questions, and making extrapolations and identifying Rüya’s thoughts and actions with her own… We spent more time talking about the essays than reading the text.