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Artwork @2004 by Linda Bronson
Selected as a
CBC/IRA CHILDREN'S CHOICE for 2005
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Published by Carolrhoda
Books
(Lerner
Publishing Groups)
February 2004
ISBN: 1-57505-537-6
Ages 3-8
Hardcover: 32 pages
"I know it's spring when robins sing
and tulips give a nod,
When grass grows green
and bass are seen on Daddy's fishing rod."
Take a journey through the sights and
sounds of the four seasons--
from flowers blooming in the spring,
to butterflies fluttering by in the summer,
to leaves blowing off the trees in the fall,
and finally to snowflakes drifting
gently in the winter.
Reviews:
---"I know it's spring when robins sing,/ and
tulips give a nod," begins Deady's ebullient young
narrator as she embarks on a winsome dance
through the seasons . . . In Bronson's curvilinear,
stylized collages, buttons transform into blossoms,
painted stones become the logs of a campfire, and
cotton balls represent woolly lambs . . . Deady
brings her poem satisfyingly full circle ("Mama's
cocoa keeps us warm/ from winter until spring,/
When, if I listen closely.../ I'll hear a robin sing"),
and translates nature's rhythms into children's own,
immediate terms . . . But most winning of all is the
book's narrator . . . she's the very picture of
year-round joie de vivre. ~Publisher's Weekly
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