ISBN10: 0027379108, ISBN13: 9780027379105, [publisher: SIMON & SCHUSTER BOOKS YOU] Hardcover &Uumlber den AutorrnrnBerta and Elmer Hader created many delightful books for children. The Big Snow was awarded the Caldecott Medal in 1949.KlappentextHere, in many beautiful pictures, the Haders show .
[Greven, Germany] [Publication Year: 1967]
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ISBN10: 0590444395, ISBN13: 9780590444392, [publisher: Scholastic] Softcover Prompt shipment, with tracking. we ship in CLEAN SECURE BOXES NEW BOXES Very good copy. Some minor creasing.
[Binghamton, NY, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1990]

ISBN10: 0689878265, ISBN13: 9780689878268, [publisher: Aladdin] Softcover Prompt shipment, with tracking. we ship in CLEAN SECURE BOXES NEW BOXES Children's Fiction: GOOD TRADE PAPERBACK, SOME NICKS AND CREASES, CLEAN PAGES, PROMPT SHIPPING WITH TRACKING.
[Binghamton, NY, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2005]

[publisher: The Macmillan Company, New York] Hardcover 4to. Unpaginated. Blue cloth with white lettering and a white snowflake on the front board, white lettering on the spine. Blue and white illustrated endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $2.50 on the bottom corner of the front flap of the jacket. Illustrated with black and white and with color illustrations. Signed by both authors without personalization on the half-title page. A beautifully done winter-themed children's book. The front board slightly bowed, edges of the boards rubbed and a small inscription on the free front endpaper; jacket with notable edge wear including loss to its spine panel, two archival tape repairs on the jacket's reverse.
[Madison, WI, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1948]
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[New York]: n.p., Date: 1948. Very good plus overall.. Collection of eight large original charcoal and chalk drawings featuring scenes from THE BIG SNOW, presented as part of a live promotional event for the 1948 NEW YORK TIMES Boys' and Girls' Book Fair. Publication is not the final step in the making of a children's book. After hitting the shelves, the book must now be "made" in the minds of buyers, so promotion becomes the biggest focus. These large chalk and charcoal drawings are a compelling example of book marketing, in this case, Berta and Elmer Hader's THE BIG SNOW. Created during a "chalk talk" - an event in which the illustrator redraws images from their picture book while telling the story in front of an audience - the images instill a dynamism into the Haders' classic story about animals who experience a deep winter snow. This format of promotion seems built for the Haders. Before beginning his career with Berta, PUBLISHER'S WEEKLY notes that Elmer "took a successful vaudeville stunt called 'A Painting a Minute' across America and Paris"; this certainly prepared him for the high-speed artistry required of a chalk talk (1412). With efficient strokes, the illustrations of THE BIG SNOW were recreated in large format to the delight of the attendees of the 1948 NEW YORK TIMES Boys' and Girls' Book Fair. One drawing, signed by both Berta and Elmer, indicates that their event took place on the Fair's first day, November 19. Only a few months later, in early 1949, ...