![]() ![]() In 1958 PD Eastman wrote his first beginner book Sam and the firefly. PD Eastman met Geisel (Dr Seuss) when they were in the army together. When I first read this book around age four I had not seen snow and yet the lively text and joyous illustrations gave me a good grasp of the cold and the fun. ![]() Reading this book today I found I remembered all the little scenes such as the snow fort, the dog sliding down the snow on his tail, the melting snow man and most importantly, the attempt by the children to save some snow in their refrigerator. I was sad to hear a teacher comment in my school the other day that a Grade 5 boy in her class had not heard Cat in the Hat and further dismayed to realize this same teacher did not immediately send up to our library for a bundle of Beginner Books – we have nearly all of them. ![]() PD Eastman wrote and illustrated quite a few of these famous books including another favorite of mine Are you my mother?īeginner books were/are special because they are very simple to read, they rhyme and yet they also manage to tell a story often with humor which is something you average class reader could never do. First published in 1962 Snow is book number 27 in the Beginner Book series. ![]() I am in Australia and we do not have snow at Christmas but I picked this book up off my shelf today because I was feeling quite nostalgic ( Christmas does that to me) and because this is a very old book I fondly remember from my childhood. ![]()
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