Snow (Four Seasons of Walter de la Mare)

de la Mare, Walter

ISBN 10: 0571312195 / ISBN 13: 9780571312191

Published by Faber & Faber Children's, 2018

A sound copy with only light wear. Overall a solid copy at a great price! Seller Inventory # BOS-S-08d-01784

Synopsis:

'No breath of wind,
No gleam of sun
Still the white snow
Whirls softly down'

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.

About the Authors: 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.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Snow (Four Seasons of Walter de la Mare)
Publisher: Faber & Faber Children's
Publication Date: 2018
Binding: Hardcover
Illustrator: Rabei, Carolina
Condition: Good