Snow, Snow: Winter Poems for Children (Hardcover)

by Jane Yolen (Author), Jason Stemple (Illustrator, Photographer)

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From School Library Journal
Grade 4-6-"When I awoke,/The tree limbs shone/As white as milk,/As bleached as bone." With easy grace, Yolen pens poetic lines to accompany Stemple's lovely photographs. The baker's dozen of poems are juxtaposed on panoramic views or placed alongside smaller scenes conveying soft billows of snow, icy glitter, and the white dust and crust of "that chilly white stuff." Soft lacy shadows of the photographed images form the background of some pages, echoing the sharper detail of the featured scene. Trees, the brown remnants of autumn leaves, skiers, and snowmobiles all receive their due. Some of the poems will long be savored, here and in future anthologies, while others are snippets of shorter season. "What shades of white/can paint a chasm?/Only a winter artist/hasm." The varied tone and multihued imagery of the poetry and photographs are sure to spark an enjoyment of winter.
Margaret Bush, Simmons College, Boston
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Review
A Cold Finger
Finding Color
Footprints
Mountain Lookout
Mountain Painter
Mountain Snowstorm
River In Winter
Skier
Snow Grate
Snow On The Trees
Snowmobile
What's Left Of Fall
A Winter Question
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 9-12
  
• Hardcover: 32 pages
• Publisher: Boyds Mills Press (October 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1563977214
• ISBN-13: 978-1563977213
• Product Dimensions: 9.7 x 8.8 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,518,695 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Snow & Snow: Photograph and Poetry Together, April 24, 2001

By	E. Reilly (Oxford, Ohio United States) - See all my reviews

TEXT SUMMARY= Each short, rhyming poem about the accompanying snow picture is writen on either a one or two page spread with title and page number refering to the index.

VISUAL SUMMARY= Beautiful colour photographs capture the different moods of snow presented in different locations. The layout is varied with fullpage spreads, pictures watermarked in the background, mirrored pictures, and pictures offset from the edges.

CRITIQUE= This entire book-entity is a work of art, as the layouts vary to add variety to the mostly white images and black text and the pictures so perfectly express the picture they are pared with. This sense of unity can be attributed to the fact that unlike most picture books, the Stemple's photographs came before the text. The poems were only produced after he had given the photographs to his mother, Jane Yolen, who was then directly inspired by them. The short poems would most likely hold a child's attention with their humour and amusing rhymes.