Ava is delighted when she discovers a red poppy in the field of her house. She sits with the flower in the sunny days of summer and shields it in the rain until one day the petals start to drop and the beautiful flower fades. But when spring comes again, Ava is surpised anew.
A simple description of a flowering plant's life cycle through the seasons. Dazzlingly colorful collage illustrations and a simple but dramatic text tell the fascinating story of the life cycle of a flower in terms of the adventures of a tiny seed. Carried aloft by the autumn wind, the tiny seed, along with other bigger seeds, travels far over the world. the journey is perilous: one of the bigger seeds is burned by the sun another falls into the ocean...
Sent outside by their mother on a rainy day, a child is dismayed when their handheld game falls into the pond before they encounter giant snails, wet mushrooms, and other elements that awaken them to the sensory aspects of nature.
Animals and children alike watch as the world transforms from the dark and dead of winter to a full and blooming spring. Illustrates melting snow, greening grass, hatching birds, growing seeds, and falling rain.
When spring finally arrives and hungry birds begin chirping, three young squirrels named Mick, Mack, and Molly attempt to figure out what baby birds eat.
A garden produces a variety of edible plants, such as corn that grows up, onions that grow down, and tomato vines that twine all around. Peppers grow up. Potatoes grow down. Pumpkins vine around and around. From seeds dropping into soil to corn bursting from its stalks, from children chasing butterflies to ants burrowing underground, everything in this vibrant picture book pulses with life -- in all directions! Sprightly illustrations set the mood...
"In a cyclical story, a child wishes to fly like a butterfly, who wishes for privacy like a stick insect’s, who wishes to swim like a whirligig beetle. Each garden creature expresses a desire to be like someone else, ending with the dragonfly who wishes to be like a child who can run, jump, laugh, play, count, build, and more."-- Provided by publisher.
Walking to her grandmother's home to help make warak enab, Lina discovers many ways to hear snow, from the scrape of a shovel on a sidewalk to the quiet pats of snowman-building.
