It Starts with a Seed

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It Starts with a Seed - Knowles, Laura
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With lyrical text, enchanting illustrations, and a beautiful fold-out scene to complete the story, this award-winning picture book takes you on a journey through the seasons and years as you follow a seed's transformation from a seedling to a sapling, then a young tree, until it becomes a large tree with its branches and roots filling the page.

As the tree grows, it is joined by well-loved woodland creatures--squirrels and rabbits, butterflies and owls--who make it their home. A rhyming poem builds page on page, echoing the rings of a growing tree. The story culminates with a foldout page showing a mature tree shedding seeds to continue the beautiful cycle of life. At the back, find the full poem and facts about the specific tree, a sycamore.

Beautiful and evocative, It Starts With a Seed is a factual story that will touch children with its simple, enchanting message of life and growth.

A 2018 Outstanding Science Trade Book for Students: K-12 (National Science Teachers Association and the Children's Book Council)
Product Details
Price
$22.99  $21.38
Publisher
Words & Pictures
Publish Date
Pages
32
Dimensions
8.3 X 11.6 X 0.4 inches | 0.95 pounds
Language
English
Type
Hardcover
EAN/UPC
9781910277263

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About the Author

Laura Knowles has a background in children's publishing and is the author of We Travel So Far, Once Upon a Jungle, The Coral Kingdom, and It Starts with a Seed, winner of the 2017 Margaret Mallett Award for Children's Non-fiction and shortlisted for the UKLA Book Award 2018. Her love of natural history, words, and art have drawn her to work on books about animals and nature.

Jennie Webber is a London-based visual artist and printmaker. Her etchings and drawings celebrate the diversity and complexity of nature, reflecting her incurable curiosity for the world. Themes of conservation underpin all her work; the idea being that if people are amazed by the natural world, then they will be less likely to destroy it.

Reviews
"Spare, rhyming text and detailed artwork inform readers about the life cycle of a sycamore tree, from seed to maturity--and its role in the ecosystem...While giving a general idea of how one journey from seed to tree influences an entire ecosystem, the text also emphasizes the wonder of growth--and life--itself. The tone is soothing and reverential. No hype here: understated enchantment." - Kirkus Reviews
A 2018 Outstanding Science Trade Book for Students: K-12 (National Science Teachers Association and the Children's Book Council) - NSTA-CBC
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