Antoinette Portis
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A Seed Grows -- Antoinette Portis, Hardcover
The transformative life cycle of a sunflower plays out in this bold read-aloud by Sibert honoree Antoinette Portis. "A seed falls,
And settles into the ground,
And the Sun shines,
And the rain comes down,
And the seed grows..."
To understand how a seed becomes a sunflower, you have to peek beneath the soil and wait patiently as winding roots grow, a stalk inches out of the earth, and new seeds emerge among blooming petals. With evocative and lively illustrations, A Seed Grows offers a close-up view of each step of this process and the ways in which flowers and seeds depend on other creatures, with a striking fold-out spread of a full-grown sunflower and additional material at the back of the book explaining the science of plant life cycles. Antoinette Portis is the author of A New Green Day, a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year and NCTE Notable Book in Poetry, as well as the Sibert Honor winning Hey, Water!
Author: Antoinette Portis
Publisher: Neal Porter Books
Published: 06/21/2022
Pages: 40
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 9.20h x 9.20w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9780823448920
Audience: Ages 4-8
Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 02/01/2022
Publishers Weekly 03/28/2022
Horn Book Magazine 05/01/2022 pg. 167
Booklist 06/01/2022 pg. 63
And settles into the ground,
And the Sun shines,
And the rain comes down,
And the seed grows..."
To understand how a seed becomes a sunflower, you have to peek beneath the soil and wait patiently as winding roots grow, a stalk inches out of the earth, and new seeds emerge among blooming petals. With evocative and lively illustrations, A Seed Grows offers a close-up view of each step of this process and the ways in which flowers and seeds depend on other creatures, with a striking fold-out spread of a full-grown sunflower and additional material at the back of the book explaining the science of plant life cycles. Antoinette Portis is the author of A New Green Day, a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year and NCTE Notable Book in Poetry, as well as the Sibert Honor winning Hey, Water!
Author: Antoinette Portis
Publisher: Neal Porter Books
Published: 06/21/2022
Pages: 40
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 9.20h x 9.20w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9780823448920
Audience: Ages 4-8
Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 02/01/2022
Publishers Weekly 03/28/2022
Horn Book Magazine 05/01/2022 pg. 167
Booklist 06/01/2022 pg. 63