The Snowy Day

Author: Ezra Jack Keats

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Price : $6.95 NZD
ISBN : 9780140501827
Publisher : Penguin Publishing Group
Imprint : Penguin Publishing Group
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Weight (g) : 0.122
Publication date : 01 July 1976
Dimensions : 191mm X 226mm X 3mm
Produced in : United Kingdom
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Author : Ezra Jack Keats
Series : Picture Puffins Ser.
Bind : Paperback
Edition : Revised edition
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Language : English
Dewey classification : 823.91
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Pages : 32
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9780140501827

Description

A picture book showing a small boy's adventures on a snowy day - making tracks in the snow, smacking snow-covered branches, getting into a snowball fight, making a snowman. The book has won the Caldecott Award.

Awards

Winner of E.B. White Read Aloud Award (Picture Bk Hall of Fame) 2011.

Author description

Ezra Jack Keats (1916 1983) is the Caldecott Medal winning author ofThe 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 Dayhas 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 ofThe Snowy Day, Whistle for Willie, Peter's Chair, A Letter to Amy, Goggles, and others. Visit the Ezra Jack Keats Foundation online atwww.ezra-jack-keats.org"

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