Snow



//Snow //

By Uri Shulevitz Title: //Snow // Author: Uri Shulevitz Illustrator: Uri Shulevitz ISBN: 978-0374468620 Publisher: Square Fish Publication date: Reprint edition (October 6, 2004) Pages: 32 Age range: 3 - 7 Years Language: English
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 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">Snow by Uri Shulevitz, is about a boy and his dog who are excited for the first snowfall. The pair travel through the town expressing their excitement while others pay little attention and discount the snow fall. The others keep writing off that the snow will amount to anything until the end when they snow has stuck and built up.


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 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">[[image:http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_PyO4AF50q2E/TBFUNMgAiQI/AAAAAAAAABM/sXHh9_qU91Y/s320/Caldecott_Honor_Seal.gif width="126" height="126" align="right"]] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">I chose Snow because it is a good themed book to read. Children love snow and living in the North-east it is something we are familiar with. The book can be used when children are excited for the first snowfall. Snow is written for younger students about pre-K to first grade. The book uses easy language and sight words for the students to get familiar with short sentences. The sentences uses repetition and describes the picture. The short sentence structure and common language assisted early readers in telling the story as they are learning to read. Snow won a Caldecott Honor award in 1999.


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 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">The illustrations in Snow accompany the text in telling the story. The picture starts off very dull and gray as the text explains. As the book continues each page the color brightens mirroring the child's excitement. By the end of the book the skies are bright blue and the child is at his peak excitement. The illustration in this book is also very interesting because it incorporates Mother Goose fables into it. In the background of most scenes there is a book store called Mother Goose Books. The characters come from the sign and are they only ones to participate in the child's excitement over snow. This is a strong use of illustration because it includes other literary works and sends a message of the imagination of a child. All the adults discount the boy, but he does not get down trotted instead he imagines a experience of playing with these classic characters.


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 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">Uri Shulevitz was born on February 27, 1935 in Poland. Shulevitz came to the united States in 1959. Shulevitz worked as a children's book illustrator in New York when an editor saw his portfolio and suggested he write children's books himself. Shulevitz published his first book The Moon in my Room in 1963. He won 6 Caldecott Awards included one for Snow in 1999.




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