The Way to Start a Day

by Byrd Baylor (Author) Peter Parnall (Illustrator)

The Way to Start a Day
Reading Level: K − 1st Grade
Beautiful paintings highlight a text depicting the ways various peoples from around the world welcome the sun and the start of a new day.
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Publishers Weekly

In this Caldecott Honor Book, the way to start the day is to go outside, face the east and greet the sun, as others in the past and present have celebrated the dawn. PW praised "the author's sensitive prose and Parnall's glittering paintings in this beautiful work." (69)
Classification
Fiction
ISBN-13
9780689710544
Lexile Measure
600
Guided Reading Level
-
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Publication date
May 19, 1986
Series
-
BISAC categories
JUV029000 - Juvenile Fiction | Nature & the Natural World | General
JUV013000 - Juvenile Fiction | Family | General
JUV030000 - Juvenile Fiction | People & Places | General
Library of Congress categories
Sun
Rising and setting
Sun worship
Caldecott Medal
Honor Book 1979 - 1979

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