It's Snowing! It's Snowing!: Winter Poems (I Can Read!, 3) - Hardcover

Prelutsky, Jack

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0060537159 ISBN 13: 9780060537159

Publisher: Harpercollins Childrens Books, 2006

Synopsis

It's winter!

The trees are bare, the days are short, and the first sparkling snowflakes are falling from the sky.

Master of rhyme Jack Prelutsky creates a flurry of winter verse, just right for ushering in the season of ice and snow. Lively, warmth-filled illustrations by Yossi Abolafia enhance these sixteen delightful poems.

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Kindergarten-Grade 3–With new illustrations by Abolafia, this book has an updated, colorful appearance but the same kid-friendly poems as in the original edition (HarperCollins, 1984). The selections will still tickle funny bones: There are glaciers in my stomach,/there is sleet inside my bones,/I am colder than the contents/of a million ice-cream cones (I Am Freezing!) and I waddle, then I flop,/I'm the living, breathing model/of a walking clothing shop (My Mother's Got Me Bundled Up). The quieter poems are just as appealing: I wondered at the beauty/of its intricate design,/I breathed, the snowflake vanished,/but for moments, it was mine (A Snowflake Fell). The watercolor-and-ink paintings are warm and filled with expressive faces and animated scenes. Young readers will enjoy this collection on their own, but the bouncing rhymes make the selections easy choices for readers theater presentations and for sharing aloud.–Lee Bock, Glenbrook Elementary School, Pulaski, WI
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K-Gr. 3. "We belly-whopped and spun like tops." The sounds of the rhyming words are as much fun as the snow action in these 16 poems by well-known children's poet Prelutsky, accompanied by exuberant line-and-watercolor illustrations that capture all the play in the cold. Presented through one kid's viewpoint, the loosely connected poems range from one about the ebullience of building a huge snowman with friends to one about the sadness of watching the snowman melt with the coming of spring. This entry in the I Can Read series will work well for reading alone or for reading aloud; many young children will recognize the physical immediacy ("I romp and I roll like a fool") of the story, including the bother of wearing all those winter clothes and the intricate design of one snowflake ("a tiny, fragile gem"). Hazel Rochman
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Edition details

• Publisher: Harpercollins Childrens Books
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0060537159
• ISBN 13: 9780060537159
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Abolafia Yossi
• Number of pages: 48