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Oct 09, 2000 | ISBN 9780140567441 | 3-7 years Buy *This format is not eligible to earn points towards the Reader Rewards program
Oct 09, 2000 | ISBN 9780451478993 | 3-7 years Buy
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Oct 09, 2000 | ISBN 9780140567441 | 3-7 years
Oct 09, 2000 | ISBN 9780451478993 | 3-7 years
Roberto is excited about the paper mouse he made in school, until Amy asks, “Does it do anything?” Roberto isn’t sure, so he leaves the mouse on his window sill and goes to bed. Before long his apartment building is quiet, but Roberto can’t fall asleep. So he gets up to look out the window and sees Archie’s cat being chased by a big, snarling dog! Roberto doesn’t know what to do, but fate steps in and an unlikely hero comes to the cat’s rescue. “The artist’s skillful use of a combination of acrylic painting and collage has never been more effectively employed than in this quiet tale.” –The Horn Book
Ezra Jack Keats (1916–1983) is the Caldecott Medal-winning author of The Snowy Day, which broke ground in 1962 as one of the first picture books for young children to portray a realistic, multicultural urban setting. Since its initial publication, The Snowy Day has… More about Ezra Jack Keats
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