One Hot Summer Day [Paperback]

It’s summer, and it’s hot! Acclaimed author-artist Nina Crews’s debut picture book was hailed as “a wonderful concept book” byThe Horn Bookand “the debut of a welcome new voice and vision” byKirkus. The perfect book to share with young children on a hot summer day!

One Hot Summer Dayis a lively and beautiful photographic concept book about a perfect summer day.

This picture book is ideal for sharing in the home or classroom, and readers will feel the summer heat while exploring the sensory delights of summer, including making chalk pictures on the pavement, swinging on the swing set, slurping grape pops, and enjoying a cooling rainstorm. 

The highlighted edges of the cut-out photographs make them pop off the page, and the intensity of the glaring sunshine contrasts with the splash of the sudden rainstorm, so that the reader can really appreciate the little girl's glee as she tries to catch raindrops with her tongue and dances in puddles. -Bulletin of the Center for Childrens Books

Using collage, Crews translates the mental images of her own hot childhood sum?mers into a sensorial feast for preschoolers. 'It's summer. and it's hot,' the book begins, 'Dogs pant. Hydrants are open. Women carry umbrellas for the shade.' This book provides many opportunities to discuss the senses and the unique experience of summer in the city. -Booklist

A wonderful concept book, grounded in ordinary events yet touched with magic, that will strike a familiar chord with preschool audiences while enlarging their perceptions. -Horn Book Magazine

The debut of a welcome new voice and vision, in photographs of a steamy summer cityscape and remembrances of the hottest of days. -Kirkus Reviews

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