《The snowy day》

Amazon.com Review The Snowy Day, a 1963 Caldecott Medal winner, is the simple tale of a boy waking up to discover that snow has fallen during the night. Keats's illustrations, using cut-outs, watercolors, and collage, are strikingly beautiful in their understated color and composition. The tranquil story mirrors the calm presence of the paintings, and both exude the silence of a freshly snow-covered landscape. The little boy celebrates the snow-draped city with a day of humble adventures--experimenting with footprints, knocking snow from a tree, creating snow angels, and trying to save a snowball for the next day. Awakening to a winter wonderland is an ageless, ever-magical experience, and one made nearly visceral by Keats's gentle tribute. The book is notable not only for its lovely artwork and tone, but also for its importance as a trailblazer. According to Horn Book magazine, The Snowy Day was "the very first full-color picture book to feature a small black hero"--yet another reason to add this classic to your shelves. It's as unique and special as a snowflake. Product Description Winner of the 1963 Caldecott Medal! No book has captured the magic and sense of possibility of the first snowfall better than The Snowy Day. Universal in its appeal, the story has become a favorite of millions, as it reveals a child's wonder at a new world, and the hope of capturing and keeping that wonder forever. The adventures of a little boy in the city on a very snowy day. "Keats's sparse collage illustrations capture the wonder and beauty a snowy day can bring to a small child."— Barnes & Noble "Ezra Jack Keats's classic The Snowy Day, winner of the 1963 Caldecott Medal, pays homage to the wonder and pure pleasure a child experiences when the world is blanketed in snow."— Publisher's Weekly "The book is notable not only for its lovely artwork and tone, but also for its importance as a trailblazer. According to Horn Book magazine, The Snowy Day was "the very first full-color picture book to feature a small black hero"—yet another reason to add this classic to your shelves. It's as unique and special as a snowflake."—Amazon.com From Publishers Weekly Now in a sturdy board-book format just right for youngest readers, Ezra Jack Keats's classic The Snowy Day, winner of the 1963 Caldecott Medal, pays homage to the wonder and pure pleasure a child experiences when the world is blanketed in snow. (Viking, $6.99 15p 6 mos. up ISBN 0-670-86733-0 Jan.) Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. Review First Snow by Marie Louise Allen Footprints Of A Sparrow by Niels Mogen Bodecker Cynthia In The Snow by Gwendolyn Brooks Read This With Gestures by John Ciardi A Lost Snowflake by Charlotte B. Deforest First Snowfall by Barbara Juster Esbensen Snowball Wind by Aileen Fisher Snowy Benches by Aileen Fisher Snow by Mary Ann Hoberman Don't Go, Jo! by Barbara Ireson That Cheerful Snowman by Hannah Lyons Johnson Moonwalk by X. J. Kennedy Snowflake Souffle by X. J. Kennedy Joe's Snow Clothes by Karla Kuskin Snow by Karla Kuskin Lying On Things by Dennis Lee Winter by Myra Cohn Livingston Joe by David Mccord It Fell In The City by Eve Merriam Please Bird by Kazue Mizumura Snowy Morning by Lilian Moore Winter Morning by Ogden Nash And Then by Prince Redcloud December Leaves by Kaye Starbird The Snowstorm by Kaye Starbird Snow Woman by Nancy Dingman Watson Winter Is Tacked Down by Noemi Weygant Snowflakes by Suk-joong Yoon -- Table of Poems from About the Author Ezra Jack Keats (1916–1983) is the Caldecott Medal winning author of The Snowy Day, which broke ground in 1962 as one of the first picture books for young children to portray a realistic, multi-cultural urban setting. Since its initial publication, The Snowy Day has come to be regarded as both a children’s classic and one of the most important picture books ever written/illustrated. Ezra Jack Keats’ legacy lives on in the popularity of his most famous character, Peter—the star of The Snowy Day, Whistle for Willie, Peter's Chair, A Letter to Amy, Goggles, and others. Visit the Ezra Jack Keats Foundation online at www.ezra-jack-keats.org