Snow

Uri Shulevitz

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"It's snowing, said boy with dog.
"It's only a snowflake," said grandfather with beard.

No one thinks one or two snowflakes will amount to anything. Not the man with the hat or the lady with the umbrella. Not even the television or the radio forecasters. But one boy and his dog have faith that the snow will amount to something spectacular, and when flakes start to swirl down on the city, they are also the only ones who know how to truly enjoy it. This playful depiction of a snowy day and the transformation of a city is perfectly captured in simple, poetic text and lively watercolor and pen-and-ink illustrations.
 
Snow is a 1998 New York Times Outstanding Book of the Year and a 1999 Caldecott Honor Book.

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"Pure enchantment from start to finish. Shulevitz uses text as spare as a December landscape to cast a spell of winter magic [and] works a bit of visual alchemy as the tale progresses." --Starred, Publishers Weekly

"Outstanding . . . filled with humorous touches . . . Youngsters will joyfully join the boy in his winter-welcoming dance." --Starred, School Library Journal

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Moira  rated it  
Nov 11, 2011
From Finnian on 11.11.11

It was awesome!

I liked the "person with" parts and it was like a poem. I thought it was kinda weird and also exciting that the statues were coming out in the snow. That's all. It was short and didn't have many words. ...more
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Jackie  rated it  
Nov 1, 2011
Through the illustrations in Snow, your mind's eye can imagine the transformation that takes place in a dull, gray city when the snow begins to fall. A little boy and his dog believe that the single snowflake will create its magic, once again, and turn the city into a winter wonderland...yes! the bo ...more
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lprater  rated it  
Oct 31, 2011
Concept Book: In this simple story, a boy and his dog experience the first snowfall for the year in a busy little village. Just as the snow begins to fall one flake at a time, the boy gets excited and begins to tell people he sees. No one believes that it is really snowing, not even the radio or t ...more
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Uri Shulevitz is a Caldecott Medal-winning illustrator and author. He was born in Warsaw, Poland, on February 27, 1935. He began drawing at the age of three and, unlike many children, never stopped. The Warsaw blitz occurred when he was four years old, and the Shulevitz family fled. For eight years they were wanderers, arriving, eventually, in Paris in 1947. There Shulevitz developed an enthusiasm for French comic books, and soon he and a friend started making their own. At thirteen, Shulevitz won first prize in an all-elementary-school drawing competition in Paris's 20th district.  In 1949, the family moved to Israel, where Shulevitz worked a variety of jobs: an apprentice at a rubber-stamp shop, a carpenter, and a dog-license clerk at Tel Aviv City Hall. He studied at the Teachers' Institute in Tel Aviv, where he took courses in literature, anatomy, and biology, and also studied at the Art Institute of Tel Aviv. At fifteen, he was the youngest to exhibit in a group drawing show at the Tel Aviv Museum.  At 24 he moved to New York City, where he studied painting at Brooklyn Museum Art School and drew illustrations for a publisher of Hebrew books. One day while talking on the telephone, he noticed that his doodles had a fresh and spontaneous look—different from his previous illustrations. This discovery was the beginning of Uri's new approach to his illustrations for The Moon in My Room, his first book, published in 1963. Since then he was written and illustrated many celebrated children’s books. He won the Caldecott Medal for The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship, written by Arthur Ransome. He has also earned three Caldecott Honors, for The Treasure, Snow and How I Learned Geography. His other books include One Monday Morning, Dawn, So Sleepy Story,and many others. He also wrote the instructional guide Writing with Pictures: How to Write and Illustrate Children’s Books. He lives in New York City.

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American Library Association Notable Children's Books, Caldecott Honor Book, New York Times Outstanding Books of the Year, Charlotte Zolotow Award (University of Wisconsin), Golden Kite Award , Booklist Editors' Choice, Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books Blue Ribbon Award, Publishers Weekly Best Children's Books of the Year, School Library Journal Best Books of the Year

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