Miss Maple's Seeds
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5.0 • 3 Ratings
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- $6.99
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- $6.99
Publisher Description
Fans of Miss Rumphius will adore this gorgeous picture book which introduces the kind, nature-loving Miss Maple, who celebrates the miracle in each seed.
Miss Maple gathers lost seeds that haven’t yet found a place to sprout. She takes them on field trips to explore places to grow. In her cozy maple tree house, she nurtures them; keeping them safe and warm until it's time for them to find roots of their own, and grow into the magnificent plants they’re destined to become.
Eliza Wheeler’s luminous paintings feature gorgeous landscapes, lush foliage and charming details. Her tender story celebrates the potential found in each seed—since even the grandest tree and most brilliant flower had to grow from the smallest of seeds.
Celebrate every season with Miss Maple, from Earth Day to graduations to harvest festivals.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Confident artistry and an intuitive knowledge of what the world looks like to a very small person make a winning combination in Wheeler's debut. Miss Maple is a grandmotherly, Borrowers-sized woman who adopts "orphan seeds that got lost during the spring planting." Dressed in a big straw hat and a billowing skirt, she marshals bluebirds to collect the seeds in baskets on their backs, finds leaf boats to take the seeds on field trips "to learn about being a seed," befriends woodland animals to pass the winter days around the hearth with, then sets the seeds free from a bough high in the air: "Take care, my little ones, for the world is big and you are small. But never forget." Careful observation of seeds (including a labeled seed chart), leaves, and plants gives the artwork substance, and Japanese woodblock style skies that fade to sunset hues provide a wistful emotional overlay. Wheeler has clearly had a good time inventing fairy-house fixtures for Miss Maple: flower lantern boats and hollow-log houses make one yearn to escape our big, unwieldy world and inhabit hers. Ages 3 5.
