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From a tiny seed to a huge, fold-out bloom, the transformative life cycle of a sunflower plays out in this bold read-aloud.
A Sibert Honor Book!
A Theodor Seuss Geisel Honor Book!
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.
" A seed falls,
And settles into the ground,
And the Sun shines,
And the rain comes down,
And the seed grows..."
Leading up to a striking fold-out spread of a full-grown sunflower, the lively, bold illustrations in A Seed Grows offer a close-up view of each step of the growth cycle.
Additional material in the back of the book explains the science of plant life cycles, and goes into more detail on the ways in which flowers and seeds depend on other creatures.
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!
An American Library Association Notable Children's Book
A CALIBA Golden Poppy Award Finalist
A New York Public Library Best Book of the Year
A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year
A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection
A Horn Book Fanfare Title
Reviews (3)
School Library Journal Review
PreS-Gr 1--Like tissue paper held up to a sunny window, Portis's pictures have the glow of stained glass, offering texture and inviting readers to come a little closer to see what she has created. A seed grows, but on the title page that seed is still in the bird's beak. It falls, settles into the soil, and sun and rain are simply present, part of the process. Soil, sun, water, air, and the seed takes root, grows tall, forms a bud, blossoms into more seeds, which feed more birds, and the cycle is complete. This approach to nature requires no embellishment, no anthropomorphizing, no cheerleading to lure in young eyes. Four- to five-word sentences on the left set off every gemlike illustration on the right, breaking format only when the book needs to be turned sideways so that the full glory of the sunflower's height can be revealed. The back matter includes charming layouts of the parts of the seed and root, what the seed needs to sprout, and the life cycle of the sunflower plant. Complicated scientific principles are rendered simply and gracefully in scenes that seem to deliver a dose of Vitamin D. VERDICT As with all of Portis's books, natural science is served sunny-side up, without a word out of place, in this essential guide.--Kimberly Olson Fakih
Publisher's Weekly Review
Employing spare language and sunny, stippled multimedia spreads that belie their quiet complexity, Portis gracefully traces a sunflower's cycle from seed to sprout to plant--and back again. On each page, a term on the verso corresponds in hue with an image on the recto, focusing the reader's attention on a single visual component. The word seed, for example, written in black, attends the arrival of a striped black sunflower shell at right ("A seed falls"). A page turn later, a brown-hued soil faces its referent, in which the seed nestles. And the font size of a bright green grows enlarges over several spreads as the seedling does the same. But the pages offer much more than an experiential play-by-play for youngest readers. In addition to incorporating mention of the seedling's early needs (soil, sun, rain) and maturation phases (bud, flower, seed), text and image hint at the plant's external effects (for those who "nest in the leaves// in the tops of trees")--and, poignantly, its place as participant in the natural world. It's a volume almost as jam-packed as a seed itself. Contextualizing back matter concludes. Ages 3--6. (June)
Booklist Review
Using minimal text and simple, stylized illustrations, Portis (Hey, Water, 2019) details the life cycle of a sunflower from sprouting and growth to blooming and seed formation to seed dispersal and the sprouting of the next generation. "A seed falls / and settles into the soil / and the sun shines / and the rain comes down / and the seed sprouts." The often--lyrical text (actually one long sentence) makes use of large fonts to emphasize key terms: seed, soil, sun, rain, sprouts, and so on. One spread includes a vertical gatefold that shows a mature sunflower atop this very tall plant. Bright colors appear throughout--in particular, blue skies, green leaves, and the striking yellow bloom. Minimalist backgrounds help to focus reader attention on the plant itself, and several small blue birds appear periodically, aiding in seed dispersal and adding interest to these attractive illustrations. Back matter includes additional sunflower facts, a life-cycle chart, and further resources. An appealing addition to the STEM shelf and a useful supplement to primary science lessons.