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| One boy and his dog have faith that the snow will amount to something spectacular, and when individual flakes start to swirl down on the city, they are the only ones who truly know how to enjoy it. A Caldecott Honor and ALA Notable Book. Reprint. |
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Key Information
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| Authors: |
Uri Shulevitz |
| Fiction Subgenre: |
City and town life - Fiction |
| Fiction Genre: |
Juvenile Fiction |
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Professional Reviews
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Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books: "Shulevitz is at his lyrical best in this poetic paean to winter.", New York Times Book Review: "With minimal text and engaging, colorful illustrations, 'Snow' is a picture book that young children in all climates are likely to relish.", Publishers Weekly: In this companion to Dawn and Rain Rain Rivers, Shulevitz uses text as spare as a December landscape to cast a spell of winter magic. Despite predictions to the contrary ("`No snow,' said radio"; "`It'll melt,' said woman with umbrella"), a boy and his dog spy a single snowflake and rush outside in gleeful anticipation. Sure enough, one snowflake turns into two, two into three, and before long snow is "dancing, playing,/ there, and there,/ floating, floating through the air." In a lovely fantasy sequence that hints at the wonder children find in snowfall, a trio of Mother Goose characters climb down from a bookshop window to join the boy and his dog as they frolic through the city streets. The Caldecott Medalist works a bit of visual alchemy as the tale progresses, gradually transforming the chilly gray watercolor washes with flecks of snow, until his cityscape is a frozen fairyland. Pure enchantment from start to finish. Ages 3-up. (Oct.), School Library Journal: PreS-Gr 2-When a young boy sees a single snowflake fall, he rejoices that a major storm is on the way, despite predictions to the contrary. But it is the child who prevails as the "snowflakes keep coming and coming and coming." Shulevitz's outstanding illustrations, rendered in watercolor and pen and ink, enrich and extend the brief text. The boy and his dog appear in the lower right-hand corner of the appropriately white front endpapers, arms and legs joyfully pummeling the air, and readers can almost forecast his announcement, "It's snowing." Pictures are framed in varying amounts of white space, the largest frames engulfing the nay-saying adults. The illustrations gradually build to a two-page spread in which "the whole city is white." Shulevitz's cartoons are filled with humorous touches: buildings tilt; an oversized woman carries a tiny umbrella; a tall man wears an outrageously tall hat; a radio almost as big as the person carrying it appears to have eyes, nose, a |
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Book Editions
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- Audio - Audio Cassette
- January 01, 2000
- Live Oak Media
- 4.5"(h) x 3.25"(w) x 0.75"(d), 0.1 lbs.
- 9780874996258
, - Audio - Audio Cassette
- Unabridged
- September 30, 2004
- Live Oak Media
- 9780874996289
, - Audio - Audio Cassette
- Unabridged
- September 30, 2004
- Live Oak Media
- 10"(h) x 9"(w) x 0.25"(d), 0.5 lbs.
- 9780874996265
, - Hardcover - Reinforced Hardcover
- July 15, 1998
- Farrar Straus & Giroux
- 10.75"(h) x 9.25"(w) x 0.25"(d), 0.95 lbs.
- 9780374370923
, - Other - PACKAGE
- January 01, 2000
- Live Oak Media
- 10.75"(h) x 9.75"(w) x 0.5"(d), 1.1 lbs.
- 9780874996272
, - Other - PACKAGE
- Unabridged
- 32
- September 30, 2004
- Live Oak Media
- 10.25"(h) x 9"(w) x 0.25"(d), 0.45 lbs.
- 9781591123538
, - Other - PACKAGE
- 32
- September 29, 2009
- Macmillan Young Listeners
- 11.5"(h) x 12"(w) x 0.5"(d), 0.45 lbs.
- 9781427208262
, - Paperback
- Package
- September 30, 2004
- Live Oak Media
- 9.75"(h) x 8.75"(w) x 0.5"(d), 1.45 lbs.
- 9781591125594
, - Paperback
- Reprint
- 32
- October 06, 2004
- Sunburst
- 9"(h) x 10"(w) x 0.25"(d), 0.3 lbs.
- 9780374468620
, - Video - DVD
- April 30, 2008
- Live Oak Media
- 7.5"(h) x 5.25"(w) x 0.5"(d), 0.2 lbs.
- 9781430105145
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First Line
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| Publisher's Note: |
The skies are gray. |
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