Wild Wild Sunflower Child Anna - Hardcover

Nancy White Carlstrom

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0027173607 ISBN 13: 9780027173604

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing, 1987

Synopsis

Anna, a little girl, spends a wonderful day outdoors, enjoying all the sights and sounds of nature in the summer, picking berries, and playing with the frogs in the creek

About this title

From School Library Journal:

PreSchool-K In perfect harmony of text and illustration, Carlstrom and Pinkney extol the joy of being a vigorous, curious child exploring the delights of a lovely summer day. Exuberant Anna, a pony-tailed little black girl in a bright yellow dress, frolics through luxuriant flower gardens, a rasp berry patch, and weedy wildflowery meadows; rolls down a green hillside; hops across a cool, froggy stream; stands sturdily up in a tree; crouches to examine insects under a rock; and finally falls asleep in the grass. The text, in free verse form, is melodious with internal rhymes, repetitions, and varied rhythms. Exquisite full-page illustrations in water color, gouache, and colored pencil depict a charming girl amid brilliant floral mag nificence and radiate summer warmth and beauty. The facing pages set off the verses attractively with a border of blos soms and leaves and a center portrait of an individual bloom, berry, burr, or other element from the larger illustration. Pa tricia Pearl, First Presbyterian School, Martinsville, Va.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Publishers Weekly:

Anna's solitary frolic with nature provides a theme for this simple, lively book. One moment she's running among sunflowers, the next climbing a tree to command a ship, then picking berries, rolling down a grassy slope, exploring ants and spiders. Nancy Carlstrom's text does verbal flips and somersaults in fresh word play; she rounds off each page-long vignette with a refrain using Anna's name. Among Pinkney's cheery green and yellows, Anna never so much as smudges her nose, and even the ants and spiders look clean and charming; the child's beatific face and her poses show a child who never stops listening and lookingnot until she falls asleep in the grass. The text contains little regular meter or end rhyme but plenty of playfulness. A bucolic mood prevails. Ages 3-6.
Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0027173607
• ISBN 13: 9780027173604
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 32
• Illustrator: Jerry Pinkney