White Snow, Bright Snow: A Caldecott Award Winner – A Classic Picture Book About the Wonder of Winter Snowfall for Kids

* CaldecottMedal Winner * ALA Notable Book *Theclassic Caldecott Medal–winning picture book about a neighborhood transformed by adelightful snowfall, from the legendary picture book duo Alvin Tresselt and RogerDuvoisin.When the firstflakes fell from the grey sky, the postman and the farmer and the policeman andhis wife scurried about doing all the practical things grown-ups do when asnowstorm comes. But the children laughed and danced, and caught the lacysnowflakes on their tongues.All the wonderand delight a child feels in a snowfall is caught in the pages of this book—thefrost ferns on the windowsill, the snowman in the yard and the mystery andmagic of a new white world.Roger Duvoisin's pictures in soft blue half-toneswith brilliant splashes of yellow and red emphasize the happiness and humor aswell as the poetic quality of the text.First published in 1947, this classicpicture book won the 1948 Caldecott Medal and was the first of eighteen picturebook collaborations by Alvin Tresselt and Roger Duvoisin.

* CaldecottMedal Winner * ALA Notable Book *Theclassic Caldecott Medal–winning picture book about a neighborhood transformed by adelightful snowfall, from the legendary picture book duo Alvin Tresselt and RogerDuvoisin.When the firstflakes fell from the grey sky, the postman and the farmer and the policeman andhis wife scurried about doing all the practical things grown-ups do when asnowstorm comes. But the children laughed and danced, and caught the lacysnowflakes on their tongues.All the wonderand delight a child feels in a snowfall is caught in the pages of this book—thefrost ferns on the windowsill, the snowman in the yard and the mystery andmagic of a new white world.Roger Duvoisin's pictures in soft blue half-toneswith brilliant splashes of yellow and red emphasize the happiness and humor aswell as the poetic quality of the text.First published in 1947, this classicpicture book won the 1948 Caldecott Medal and was the first of eighteen picturebook collaborations by Alvin Tresselt and Roger Duvoisin.