# Snow Treasure **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 22, 2007, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snow-treasure/430946 "2007-12-22T17:53:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2007, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snow-treasure/430946/1 "2007-12-22T17:53:52Z")
‘70 years of Snow White’ shows up in the forum index on my browser as ‘70 years of snow…’ That reminded me of a book I read when I was in elementary school, _Snow Treasure_. _Snow Treasure_ is a story that takes place in Norway in 1940. In order to keep millions of dollars in gold bullion from falling into the hands of the occupying Germans, a plan is hatched whereby the town’s children will smuggle the gold under the noses of the Germans to a waiting boat. Even when I was eight I liked learning about WWII history, so I remember really enjoying this book. Of course this was well before personal computers and video games. I remember watching a _Jonny Quest_ episode that involved a Mad Nazi Scientist enslaving a tribe of cavemen to… do whatever it was he wanted to do. At that time it wasn’t much of a stretch to imagine there were Mad Nazi Scientists at large. Today that would be laughable. So I wonder if _Snow Treasure_ would hold the interest of today’s children. Anyway, just something I thought of upon reading the partial title of the other thread. Have any of you read _Snow Treasure_? ---
**Author:** ![What\_the](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f4b2a3/32.png) [@What\_the](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_the)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2007, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snow-treasure/430946/2 "2007-12-22T22:40:29Z")
I remember reading it too!! I think I got it from the school book club which I think was called Lucky Books at the time. Another favorite of mine was a little league baseball story called Battery Feud. Do you remember that one by chance? ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2007, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snow-treasure/430946/3 "2007-12-22T23:13:01Z")
No, I was never into baseball. I got _Snow Treasure_ from Scholastic Press. Don’t remember much except the basic plot, and that there was a German who was bad a skiing the kids called ‘Sergeant Sit-Down’. ---
**Author:** ![Fretful\_Porpentine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fretful_porpentine/32/2873_2.png) [@Fretful\_Porpentine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fretful_Porpentine)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2007, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snow-treasure/430946/4 "2007-12-22T23:20:57Z")
Oh, I loved that book when I was a kid (in the mid-80s, I have no idea whether it’s still in print or being read). ---
**Author:** ![What\_the](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f4b2a3/32.png) [@What\_the](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_the)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2007, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snow-treasure/430946/5 "2007-12-23T15:44:26Z")
[QUOTE=Fretful Porpentine] Oh, I loved that book when I was a kid (in the mid-80s, I have no idea whether it’s still in print or being read). [/QUOTE] I read Snow Treasure in the late 60’s…glad to see it made it at least into the 80’s! ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2007, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snow-treasure/430946/6 "2007-12-23T15:47:17Z")
They have it at Amazon for $4.99. ---
**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2007, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snow-treasure/430946/7 "2007-12-23T15:49:54Z")
I remember reading SNOW TREASURE in 4th grade! great story! Thanks for the memories! I expect that these days-“Snow” would have a diferent meaning!