Snow
Record details
- ISBN: 0374370923
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Physical Description:
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1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 24 x 26 cm. - Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, c1998.
Content descriptions
Awards Note: | Caldecott honor book, 1999. |
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Subject: | Snow Fiction City and town life Fiction |
Available copies
- 2 of 2 copies available at Kenton County.
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- 0 current holds with 2 total copies.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Erlanger Branch | E SHULE U (Text) | 33126007382900 | JBreakout Collection 1 | Available | - |
Independence Branch | E SHULE U (Text) | 33126007398120 | JGeneral Holiday Fiction | Available | - |
- School Library Journal Reviews : SLJ Reviews 1998 December
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, and mouth. The characters displayed in the window of "Mother Goose Books" come to life to cavort with the child among the swirling flakes. Youngsters will joyfully join the boy in his winter-welcoming dance.-Marianne Saccardi, Norwalk Community-Technical College, CT Copyright 1998 School Library Journal