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A Child's Calendar - Hardcover

Updike, John

 
9780394810591: A Child's Calendar

Synopsis

A dozen poems evoke the spirit of each month, from the experiences of children's lives

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From the Publisher

Newly revised poems; all new illustrations!
From the short, frozen days of January, through the long green days of June, to the first light snowflakes of December, here are poems for all twelve months of the year. The poems, which incorporate a number of changes made for this edition, were first published in 1965. John Updike is the author of more than forty books, including collections of short stories, poems, and criticism. His novels have won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Trina Schart Hyman has received a Caldecott Medal, Caldecott Honor awards, and the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award.

About the Author

Trina Schart Hyman was born in 1939 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and attended the Philadelphia College of Art, the Boston Museum School of Fine Arts, and the School for Applied Art in Stockholm, Sweden. She has illustrated more than one hundred books for children. Her work has received the Caldecott Medal, Caldecott Honor awards, and the Boston Globe Horn Book Award. She lives in New Hampshire.

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