"Elmer, the colorful patchwork elephant, reveals a sense of humor as he shows a herd of gray elephants that cold and warm are relative terms. When the others complain that they feel cold on a colder than usual day in the jungle, Elmer leads them on a journey up to snow-covered mountains where they cavort in the snow and ice. Hone again, they are now better able to appreciate their warm jungle home. This gentle story is sure to please children....Delightful."—School Library Journal.Author Biography: David McKee grew up in Devon, England. Later, while a student at Plymouth Art College, he began selling his cartoon drawings to newspapers. Since 1964 he has published a number of successful books for children, including the King Rollo stories, which he helped animate for British television. His first book for Lothrop was Snow Woman, of which Publishers Weekly said, "It is McKee's superb humor—conveyed almost solely in the illustrations...that wins the day." Of his second Lothrop book, Who's a Clever Baby, Publishers Weekly had this to say: "Grandma's alliterative frenzies are fascinating and readers will find Baby's manipulative stubbornness vastly amusing." Mr. McKee enjoys travel..."Elmer, the colorful patchwork elephant, reveals a sense of humor as he shows a herd of gray elephants that cold and warm are relative terms. When the others complain that they feel cold on a colder than usual day in the jungle, Elmer leads them on a journey up to snow-covered mountains where they cavort in the snow and ice. Hone again, they are now better able to appreciate their warm jungle home. This gentle story is sure to please children....Delightful."—School Library Journal.Author Biography: David McKee grew up in Devon, England. Later, while a student at Plymouth Art College, he began selling his cartoon drawings to newspapers. Since 1964 he has published a number of successful books for children, including the King Rollo stories, which he helped animate for British television. His first book for Lothrop was Snow Woman, of which Publishers Weekly said, "It is McKee's superb humor—conveyed almost solely in the illustrations...that wins the day." Of his second Lothrop book, Who's a Clever Baby, Publishers Weekly had this to say: "Grandma's alliterative frenzies are fascinating and readers will find Baby's manipulative stubbornness vastly amusing." Mr. McKee enjoys traveling and doing books that "leave things unsaid." He(展開)
It is just a bit colder than usual.What you need is a good walk to warm you up. Then he touched the white elephant anf a piece fell off. It wasnot long before all the elephants were throwing snowballs at each other. Still laughing and playi...
江雨蒙蒙作小寒,今天是臘月的開始~小寒。先看了穿越時空的港口,又看了《這就是二十四節(jié)氣》中關(guān)于小寒的部分,最后看了這本歡快的elmer in the snow。節(jié)氣那本書中提到了是蠟梅,而我一直以為是臘梅。這該是一個下雪的節(jié)氣了,書中有提到咯吱咯的踏雪聲,順便把在the snowy day里看到的crunch crunch 在這時候又拿來說著玩,看elmer這本時繼續(xù)crunch~這花格子象帶著大伙在雪中玩得好快活,羨慕死我們這些到目前為止沒看過今冬半片雪花的人了。