Stopping by Jungle on a Snowy Evening
$26.93
- Hardcover
40 pages
- Release Date
12 February 2025
Summary
In the spirit of Lane Smith and Jon Klassen, this delightfully irreverent picture book dives into the world of Robert Frost’s “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening,” where a boy with a unique vision gives some creative feedback to the famed poet.
When Robert Frost writes, “Whose woods these are I think I know,” he paints a picture of a serene winter night in the deep woods, surrounded by blankets and blankets of snow. But the tranquil scene is interrupted by a little boy! This wildly …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781481478021 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1481478028 |
| Author: | Richard T. Morris, Julie Rowan-Zoch |
| Publisher: | Simon & Schuster |
| Imprint: | Atheneum |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 40 |
| Release Date: | 12 February 2025 |
| Weight: | 435g |
| Dimensions: | 8mm x 229mm x 267mm |
| Audience Age: | 4-8 |
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Critics Review
The disconnect between the staid poet and the imaginative child makes for a highly amusing example of metafiction, while the digital art blends elegantly composed wintry backdrops with cartoonish images of the characters and various animals, with gleefully chaotic results. Sets an American literary classic on a wonderfully wrong turn. – Kirkus Reviews * 10/15/2024 *
In this picture book, author Richard T. Morris and illustrator Julie Rowan-Zoch have taken Frost’s words off the shelf, given them a dusting, added a kid and a hippopotamus, and created a delightful, charming and clever tale. Stopping by Jungle on a Snowy Evening is an irreverent homage that will leave all readers smiling.
Julie Rowan-Zoch’s cartoon-like depiction of the protagonist is immediately familiar and loveable: curious, imaginative and a little cheeky, wearing a backwards hat and slide sandals. In contrast, Frost is drawn in a more traditional style. Rowan-Zoch’s bold, clever art mashes both their worlds together […] Reality and imagination smash together, and the result is perfect hilarity.
Stopping by Jungle on a Snowy Evening is a rare find. It’s a combo of old and new, clever and classic, innovative and familiar—perfect for any fathomable storytime scenario. Even more rare, there isn’t a single thing this reviewer would change about it. Two thumbs up. – BookPage, STARRED REVIEW * 12/1/2024 *
Richard T. Morris
Richard Morris is the author of many children’s picture books, including Bear Came Along (a Caldecott Honoree), This Is a Moose, Sheep 101, Fear the Bunny, Stopping by Jungle on a Snowy Evening, and Piggypine. He is an E. B. White Read-Aloud Award honoree and a Midwest Booksellers Choice Award winner. He lives with his family in New Jersey.
Julie Rowan-Zoch is the illustrator of Stopping by Jungle on a Snowy Evening by Richard T. Morris, Debug This Book by Omar Abed, Not All Sheep Are Boring! by Bobby Moynihan, and Louis by Tom Lichtenheld, and is the author-illustrator of I’m a Hare, So There!. She grew up collecting freckles and chasing hermit crabs in New York and spent years slicing rich breads in Germany before waking up to 300 days of blue Colorado skies.
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