White Snow, Bright Snow: A Caldecott Award Winner – A Classic Picture Book About the Wonder of Winter Snowfall for Kids (Ages 4-8) (Mulberry Books)
1948 Caldecott Medal winner. It captures the first snowfall and the way a community welcomes winter.
Work Information
It captures the first snowfall and the way a community welcomes winter
It captures the first snowfall and the way a community welcomes winter. A Japanese edition was not confirmed in this pass, so bookIdentifiers.ja remains null.
Book Information
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Published
- 1988-11-28
- Pages
- 32 pages
- Language
- 英語
- Size
- 20.96 x 0.64 x 26.04 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9780688082949
- ISBN-10
- 0688082947
- Price
- 2332 JPY
- Category
- 洋書/Children's Books/Activities, Crafts & Games/Activity Books
* 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.
Alvin Tresselt (1916-2000) grew up in Passaic, New Jersey and worked in children’s book publishing in New York City for many years. He is the author of more than 50 picture books, including the retelling of the Ukrainian folk tale The Mitten . His first of eighteen collaborations with Roger Duvoisin, White Snow, Bright Snow, earned the 1948 Caldecott Medal. Roger Duvoisin (1904-1980) was born in Geneva, Switzerland and moved to the United States in 1930. He lived and worked in NYC until 1938, when he became an American citizen and moved to New Jersey. He was the illustrator of more than 140 picture books, 40 of which he wrote himself. He earned the Caldecott Medal in 1948 for White Snow, Bright Snow by Alvin Tresselt .
Reviews
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雪を迎え雪に包まれた風景と雪解けを迎える風景を美しく静かにえがいた名作
語数 736 YL 1.5 一編の詩から始まる1947年初版のクラシックな雰囲気のあるこの英語 の絵本は、詩的な小気味よいリズムの英語で、雪を迎え、雪に包まれ、 雪解けを迎える風景を、美しくえがいています。 灰色の低い雲に覆われて、雪の訪れを感じ始める季節。一片の雪が舞い 落ちます。郵便配達員も、農夫も、警察官も、その奥さんも、そして 動物たちも、それぞれが、それぞれの感じ方で初雪の訪れを感じます。 雪の勢いは次第に強まり、冬支度を始める人々と動物…。初雪にはしゃ ぐ子どもたち…。 雪は町を白い景色に変えてゆきます…。 雪の季節を迎え、雪に包まれ、雪解けの季節までを、人々や動物たちの 暮らしとともに、穏やかに、静かに、美しくえがいています。寒い冬を 迎えた日に、ゆっくりと読みたくなるような絵本です。 1948年のコールデコット賞を受賞した名作で、江國香織氏の翻訳で和訳 版『しろいゆき あかるいゆき』も刊行されています。
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やっぱりクラシック！
この色使いはクラシックならでは。 イラストに描かれている生活や文化が今とは違うので それを見るだけでも楽しいです。
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Recommended by a school teacher
Great read! Highly recommend
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Snow, snow, and more snow
White Snow, Bright Snow depicts the simplicity of the winter season’s natural progression that readers of all ages will enjoy. Having been published in 1947, author Alvin Tresselt’s prose and Roger Duvoisin’s unique illustrations remains to be a classic for readers that encountered the book as a child in grade school. Because of its timeless quality, although with a few minor mentions of references that appear somewhat out of date or before a reader’s time, the story is enchanting. Tresselt’s rhythmic prose flows with much clarity capturing the subtle anticipation of the first snowflakes that appear on the ground and proceeds into the night. The story continues as the snow settles on the ground and morning comes as the main characters begin their regular routines for the day from the postman gathering his rubber galoshes to the farmer reading his shovel to pave a path to his barn while children playfully making snowmen and snow forts. Indeed, Tresselt’s inspiration for the story sprang from his experience while walking along a snow-covered street one wintry night. Duvoisin colorfully exhibits all of these scenes in the book with a few shades of gray, black and white, orange, yellow, and blue; the illustrations appear like strokes of paint stressing the distinctness of each image. The story concludes with the melting of a snowman and the beginning of spring with the sight of a robin and cows about on the farm. And as one recollects their childhood memories similar to the playfulness depicted in the book of first or reoccurring experience of seeing snow, what has changed since 1947? Plenty but White Snow, Bright Snow, purely shows the beauty of nature.
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Five Stars
Fast delivery great book.
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Snow day!
This book is a walk down long held memories of my first trips to the library as a young child. I Have always held a special feeling for snowy days. There’s something about the peacefulness of the first snow. The story has stayed with me for many years and I’m thrilled To have my own copy.
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A classic
A favourite in my preschool class