One Monday Morning
by Uri Shulevitz (Author)
A boy's imagination brings new friends into his life in Caldecott Medal-winning illustrator and author Uri Shulevitz's picture book, One Monday Morning.
"One Monday morning the king, the queen, and the little prince came to visit me. But I wasn't home . . . "
On a dreary, rainy day, a boy playing with a deck of cards looks out his New York City tenement window and begins a story. A royal family pays the boy a visit, only to find him not at home. Every day, the royals return with a grander, more colorful entourage in their wake, but still the boy isn't there to greet them.
When they finally do gather in the tiny space of the boy's room, the sun appears to shine down upon the new fellowship.
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Publisher's Weekly
In this charming story, first published in 1967, a queen and prince call on a city-dwelling boy one Monday morning, but as he tells readers, "I wasn't home." Finally on Sunday the boy is there to receive his royal guests. Brightly hued regal clothing brightens cross-hatched drawings of an urban landscape. Ages 3-6. (Aug.) Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.
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Review quotes
"Beautiful, easy to read fun, with an interplay between text and pictures always sought for, seldom encountered."—starred, "School Library Journal
"The idea of the story is so childlike, the telling of it so effortless, and the book executed with such distinction that it belongs naturally among the true picture books we seem always to have had . . . A book no child should miss."—"The Horn Book
Uri Shulevitz
Uri Shulevitz is a Caldecott Medal-winning illustrator and author. He has written and illustrated many celebrated children's books, including the Caldecott Medal-winner The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship, written by Arthur Ransome. He has also earned three Caldecott Honors, for The Treasure, Snow, and How I Learned Geography.
Classification
Fiction
ISBN-13
9780374456481
Lexile Measure
1120
Guided Reading Level
-
Publisher
Turtleback Books
Publication date
August 20, 2003
Series
-
BISAC categories
JUV051000 - Juvenile Fiction | Imagination & Play
JUV023000 - Juvenile Fiction | Lifestyles | City & Town Life
JUV034000 - Juvenile Fiction | Royalty (kings queens princes princesses knights etc.)
JUV023000 - Juvenile Fiction | Lifestyles | City & Town Life
JUV034000 - Juvenile Fiction | Royalty (kings queens princes princesses knights etc.)
Library of Congress categories
City and town life
Kings, queens, rulers, etc
Kings and rulers
Kings, queens, rulers, etc
Kings and rulers
