The snowy day
- Date:
- 1962.
- Author:
- Keats, Ezra Jack, illustrator, author.
- Collecting Area:
- Mathes Childrens Literature
- Call Number:
- YH K248 S56 1962 LOCAL
- Publisher:
- Viking Press
- ISBN:
- 0670654000
- Abstract:
- The adventures of Peter, a little boy in the city on a very snowy day. No book has captured the magic and sense of possibility of the first snowfall better than this book. With its universal appeal, the story has become a favorite with millions, as it reveals a child's wonder at a new world, and the hope of capturing and keeping that wonder forever. -- Publisher description.
- Physical Description:
- 32 pages : color illustrations ; 21 x 24 cm
- Series:
- Caldecott medal book ; 1963 and Caldecott medal book ; 1963.
- Notes:
- Special Collections' copy inscribed, 1963. LOCAL
- Curator Notes:
- Viking, c 1962; two copies: 1) [first printing] inscribed March 1963, with dust jacket from 4th printing, Nov. 1963 2) 2d printing, Feb. 1963, with dust jacket; publisher's library binding, titles on spine printed in white and red on light blue cloth, front cover titles printed in white, front cover vignette printed in red and white
- Subjects:
- City and town life Juvenile fiction, Play Juvenile fiction, Snow Juvenile fiction, Snowballs Juvenile fiction, African Americans Juvenile fiction, Adventure and adventurers, Children's stories, Snow Fiction, African Americans Fiction, JUVENILE FICTION Classics. bisacsh, JUVENILE FICTION Nature & the Natural World Weather. bisacsh, JUVENILE FICTION People & Places United States African American. bisacsh, City and town life, Adventure and adventurers, African Americans, Children's stories, Play, Snow, Snowballs, and Snow Fiction. sears
- Genres/Forms:
- Picture books for children, Caldecott Medal Winner 1963, Picture books, Fiction, Juvenile works, Picture books for children. gsafd, Picture books. lcgft, Dust jackets (Bindings) 1962. rbbin, and Juvenile literature 1962. rbgenr
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