Snow Toward Evening: A Year in a River Valley is a beautiful picture book and collection of poetry. The 13 poems, written by 13 different poets, were selected by childhood educator, Josette Frank. American Painter, Thomas Locker, then used the poems as inspiration and created 13 seasonal paintings to accompany the poems. There is one poem and one painting for each month, plus the bonus of another painting and poem at the end of the book entitled, "A New Year." Locker's paintings are beautifully-realistic and help to bring the poems to life. This is a book for all ages. Children will enjoy looking for connections to the poems in the paintings. Books organized by months of the year are often very handy in the classroom and will give you and your students something to look forward to each month and each turning season. If you enjoy the paintings in this book, you can find many other books for children that Locker wrote and illustrated. ( )

In this luminous book breathtaking art by the acclaimed painter Thomas Locker is paired with poems by 13 world-renowned poets. The poems were each selected by the distinguished educator Josette Frank and combined with the art to reflect one year in the life of a river valley. 14 full-color paintings.

A beautiful collection of poetry illustrated by Thomas Locker that shows the changing of the seasons as a poem is included for each month of the year. Most are developmentally appropriate, although, the young child would not be aware of the correspondence between the poems and months.

Ages: 5-8

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