A Season of Flowers (Tilbury House Nature Book)
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- $11.99
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
Michael Garland (Daddy Played the Blues) displays his impressive illustration range with the stylized, country-quilt, digital collage illustrations of A Season of Flowers.
Snowdrops and crocuses yield to tulips and hyacinths, then dogwood blossoms, iris, lupine, daisies, morning glories, daylilies, geraniums, peonies, sunflowers, roses, and chrysanthemums as spring passes to summer, then autumn. At last the garden slumbers into winter under a blanket of snow, preparing next year’s procession of blooms. Like actors crossing a stage, flowers narrate the passing seasons in the first person, each one briefly proclaiming its unique and vital role in the natural world. Backmatter descriptions complete this child’s introduction to a garden year, in which the passage of time is vividly realized.
Fountas & Pinnell Level L
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Dimensional digital collage differentiates this board book compendium of flowers that's relayed from the first-person perspective of each blossom variety shown. Gently following the seasons, Garland introduces each flower, and an animal or insect that it attracts, in rhyming couplets. "When summer heats up, I'm next to arrive./ My scent in the air brings bees from their hives," reads one spread, which portrays a grassy field of bee-covered daisies and three bee skeps. A semi-translucent italicized tab at the bottom right-hand corner identifies the speaker as daisy. Layered, fabriclike patterns enrich vibrant illustrations of flora and fauna; in one spread, houndstooth and windowpane plaid make up the twilight sky, as a moon made of gingham and Chinese dragon–printed fabric hangs above thin iris stalks. A season-oriented introduction to blooms and their qualities. Ages 3–5.
