One Monday Morning

by Uri Shulevitz

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374456488
• ISBN13: 9780374456481
• Release Date: August 2003
• Publisher: Square Fish
• Length: 48 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 7.2" x 9.8"
• Age Range: 2 to 5 years

Customer Reviews

Great read!

I read this book as a youth and got it for my child. It is just as cute and enjoyable as I remembered it being. It has a nice repetitive nature that helps kids learn the days of the week. Great illustrations.

The artwork has been underrated

I think the artwork in this book has been underrated, perhaps because only a few colors were used in printing. It's clever: the run-down New York City neighborhood is drawn in meticulous detail. I use it to show Inuit students what a city looks like! By contrast, the royal entourage is cartoon-style, not realistic. Not only does the royal family's entourage grow larger with each repetition of the pattern, but the characters themselves grow larger, until at the end of the book they have to hunch over to fit into the boy's tenement apartment. At the very end, the characters turn into playing cards (only in the art, not in the text) and the royal barber (who, we somehow suspect, is a self-portrait of the author) becomes a doll that has been sitting half-seen on the window sill all along. Lots to look at in this book.

Little boy gets interesting visitor.

One Monday Morning is the story of a little prince who each day of the week brings more friends to visit. However the little boy he's coming to visit isn't home. The story is much like the 12 days of christmas with the addition of interesting characters each day of the week.

Great First Reader. Please re-publish

This book is a great first time reader. It is better than Dick and Jane for several reasons. This book adds people and words as the story unfolds. It is an easy story to follow. It adds words that are pretty common to today's early readers. I am a literacy volunteer and I use this book for my older reading students.