A Fall Ball for All
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
On the verge of winter, the autumn wind issues an invitation: "Come one, come all to the annual windfall ball!" Join all the animals in this beautifully illustrated rhyming picture book as they gather for the autumn wind's harvest in preparation for the long winter.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Leaf invitations sweep through the forest, declaring to the animals: "You're invited, one and all, to the annual Windfall Ball!" Even as the cooler weather approaches, "Geese postponed their grand migration,/ Bears and bats, their hibernation." The highly anticipated event is a windfall (Swenson defines the word as "fruit or other crops blown down by the wind" and "an unexpected gift or good fortune"). Fedele captures the blazing colors of the season as the flutter of crimson, yellow, and orange leaves drift throughout the pages like butterflies. In the windfall's wake, the animals badgers, bears, raccoons, and more eagerly gather "cranberries, chestnuts, corn, and plums,/ Sunflowers, daisies, chrysanthemums," for their winter dens. The bounties of autumn are on full display in this cozy story. Ages 5 8.
