{"id":3449,"date":"2011-12-30T08:49:45","date_gmt":"2011-12-30T13:49:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lettersandsodas.com\/books\/?p=3449"},"modified":"2011-12-30T08:49:45","modified_gmt":"2011-12-30T13:49:45","slug":"snow-by-uri-shulevitz-farrar-straus-giroux-1998","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/snow-by-uri-shulevitz-farrar-straus-giroux-1998\/","title":{"rendered":"Snow by Uri Shulevitz (Farrar Straus Giroux, 1998)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I forget where I heard about this book, which made the Caldecott Honor list in 1999, but it seemed like a pleasing winter-time picture book, perhaps especially given our not-very-snowy-yet winter this year: we had an early slushy snow Halloween weekend, but haven&#8217;t had any since. <em>Snow<\/em> is set in a gray-skied town with a big central square and a crooked skyline of narrow houses with leaning chimneys. The town has at least two bookshops (Mother Goose Books and More Books), and it is winter in the town: winter, and it&#8217;s going to snow. The radio says it&#8217;s not going to snow, and the television says it&#8217;s not going to snow, but one little boy with a dog sees the first flake and is sure it&#8217;ll turn into something that sticks. All the grown-ups disagree, as grown-ups do (&#8220;It&#8217;s nothing,&#8221; or &#8220;It&#8217;ll melt&#8221;), but the boy, frolicking in the square with his dog long after the grown-ups have gone inside, is right: snow! <\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/9780374468620-300x272.jpg\" alt=\"Snow by Uri Shulevitz - book cover\" title=\"Snow\" width=\"300\" height=\"272\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3456\" \/><br \/>\n(cover image courtesy of the Macmillan website, which also has a few <a href=\"http:\/\/us.macmillan.com\/snow\/UriShulevitz#interiors\">interior pages<\/a> for you to look at)<\/center><\/p>\n<p>The illustrations in this book are what I like best about it: those higgledy-piggledy houses, the varying grays and blue-grays of the watercolor skies, and of course the snowflakes themselves, dotting the sky like stars and then like more than stars, in more places than just the sky. &#8220;All snowflakes know is snow, and snow, and snow,&#8221; the text says at one point, and there it is, the logic of winter, snow piling on the ground and on grown-ups&#8217; hats and coats, snow transforming the town into something magic. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I forget where I heard about this book, which made the Caldecott Honor list in 1999, but it seemed like a pleasing winter-time picture book, perhaps especially given our not-very-snowy-yet winter this year: we had an early slushy snow Halloween weekend, but haven&#8217;t had any since. Snow is set in a gray-skied town with a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-picture-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3449\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}