Snow

As the day draws to a close, a family prepares for Christmas - decorating the tree, hanging stockings by the fire, putting out a plate of mince pies... Outside, the world turns to white. 'No breath of wind, No gleam of sun Still the white snow Whirls softly down'

About the author

Walter de la Mare (1873-1956) was born in Charlton, Kent. From 1890 to 1908, he worked in the statistics department of the London office of Anglo-American Oil. For the rest of his long life, he was a full-time writer. De la Mare's first collection of poetry, Songs of Childhood, was published under pseudonym in 1902. With the publication of The Listeners (1912) and the classic volume of children's poetry Peacock Pie (1913), he established himself as one of the leading poets of the time. In addition to publishing more than a thousand poems, culminating with The Traveller (1945) and Winged Chariot (1951), considered by many - among them T. S. Eliot, his editor at Faber - to be his finest poems, de la Mare published novels, including Memoirs of a Midget (1921), short stories, drama, stories for children and literary criticism. He also edited celebrated anthologies, including Come Hither (1923) and Behold This Dreamer (1939). Walter de la Mare received the Order of Merit in 1953.Carolina Rabei was born in 1989 in Moldova. She moved to Cambridge, England in September 2012 to complete an MA in illustration. Her first picture book, Snow, with words by Walter de la Mare, was published to huge critical acclaim. The Ride-by-Nights is the second de la Mare picture book that she has illustrated.

Summary

As the day draws to a close, a family prepares for Christmas - decorating the tree, hanging stockings by the fire, putting out a plate of mince pies... Outside, the world turns to white. 'No breath of wind,No gleam of sunStill the white snowWhirls softly down'

Report

Walter de Mare's classic poems is revisted in a stunning fashion in this picture book that celebrates the wonder of snow The Green Parent

Product details

• Authors: Walter de la Mare, Walter De La Mare
• Assisted by: Carolina Rabei (Illustration), Rabei Carolina (Illustration)
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2014
• EAN: 9780571305575
• ISBN: 978-0-571-30557-5
• No. of pages: 32
• Dimensions: 250 mm x 250 mm x 5 mm
• Series: Faber Children's Books; Four Seasons of Walter de la Mare; Four Seasons of Walter de la Mare
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books > Picture books; Christmas, JUVENILE NONFICTION / Activity Books, JUVENILE FICTION / Classics, JUVENILE NONFICTION / Poetry / General, JUVENILE FICTION / Poetry (see also Stories in Verse), JUVENILE FICTION / Concepts / Seasons, Picture storybooks, Interest age: from c 3 years, Reading Age: From C 3 Years