White Snow, Bright Snow - by Alvin Tresselt (Hardcover)

About the Book

When it begins to look, feel, and smell like snow, everyone prepares for a winter blizzard.

Book Synopsis

* Caldecott
Medal Winner * ALA Notable Book *

The
classic Caldecott Medal-winning picture book about a neighborhood transformed by a
delightful snowfall, from the legendary picture book duo Alvin Tresselt and Roger
Duvoisin.

When the first
flakes fell from the grey sky, the postman and the farmer and the policeman and
his wife scurried about doing all the practical things grown-ups do when a
snowstorm comes. But the children laughed and danced, and caught the lacy
snowflakes on their tongues.

All the wonder
and delight a child feels in a snowfall is caught in the pages of this book--the
frost ferns on the windowsill, the snowman in the yard and the mystery and
magic of a new white world.
Roger Duvoisin's pictures in soft blue half-tones
with brilliant splashes of yellow and red emphasize the happiness and humor as
well as the poetic quality of the text.

First published in 1947, this classic
picture book won the 1948 Caldecott Medal and was the first of eighteen picture
book collaborations by Alvin Tresselt and Roger Duvoisin.

From the Back Cover

When the first flakes fell from the grey sky, the postman and the farmer and the policeman and his wife scurried about doing all the practical things grownups do when a snowstorm comes. But the children laughed and danced, and caught the lacy snowflakes on thier tongues.

All the wonder and delight a child feels in a snowfall is caught in the pages of this book -- the frost ferns on the window sill, the snow man in the yard and the mystery and magic of a new white world. Roger Duvoisin's pictures in soft blue half-tones with briliant splashes of yellow and red emphasize the gaiety and humor as well as the poetic quality of the text.