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The First Day of Winter Spiral-Bound | October 30, 2012

Denise Fleming, Denise Fleming (Illustrated by)

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A delightful picture book based on the song The Twelve Days of Christmas.

A cozy, cumulative book to warm a cold winter day

Alive with swirling snow and lots of outdoor fun, the first ten days of winter bring special gifts for a special friend. This cumulative tale will have children chanting along as they discover all the trimmings needed for the most perfect snowman ever!

Publisher: Macmillan
Original Binding: Trade Paperback
Pages: 32 pages
ISBN-10: 0312371381
Item Weight: 0.5 lbs
Dimensions: 10.0 x 0.3 x 10.0 inches

“Fleming’s pulp paintings are a celebration of shape, color, and texture.” —The Horn Book

* “Fleming brings a cheerful childlike tone to her text, along with abundant touches of humor and tenderness.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review

Denise Fleming has written and illustrated many children’s books, including In the Tall, Tall Grass; Shout! Shout It Out!; and Sleepy, Oh So Sleepy. She won a Caldecott Honor for In the Small, Small Pond. Denise published her first painting in the third grade, when she started taking classes at the Toledo Museum of Art and one of her paintings was chosen to be the cover of a teacher’s magazine. She now works primarily with paper, by pouring colored paper pulp through hand-cut stencils. She lives in Toledo, Ohio.