Tell Me a Season - Hardcover

Siddals, Mary McKenna

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0395710219 ISBN 13: 9780395710210

Publisher: Clarion Books, 1997

Synopsis

A simple descriptive text and lavish full-color artwork offer a glimpse of the four seasons as they change the outdoor landscape of one family's home in a visually stunning introduction to colors and the calendar.

About this title

About the Author:

PETRA MATHERS is an acclaimed picture book illustrator whose books include In Aunt Giraffe's Green Garden by Jack Prelutsky, The Miraculous Tale of the Two Maries by Rosemary Wells, Strange Mr. Satie by M. T. Anderson, and her own beloved Lottie books. She lives in Astoria, Oregon.

From School Library Journal:

PreS. This small and simple concept book describes the colors in a spring morning, a summer day, a fall evening, and a winter night. Four specific scenes lead up to each panoramic double-page spread that features a farmhouse with a girl and a boy, a cat and a dog. Siddals's appropriately straightforward and economical text is brought to life by Mathers's folksy watercolors. On facing single pages, she balances the colors and images well, sometimes even continuing the same background from one frame to the next. In her double-page spreads, she includes details that readers can trace from one season to the next (a toy sailboat in the window comes outside for summer play, but returns to its window in the fall; a clothesline is put up in summer and taken down for winter), introducing earliest readers to story line in a book. The careful finishing touches of a smiling sun on the title page, and a smiling, sleeping moon above the final page's "Good night" reflect the thoughtful execution of this fine book. It is well done without being overdone, and the size (a square seven inches) is just right.?Nina Lindsay, Vista School, Albany, CA
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About this edition

• Publisher: Clarion Books
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0395710219
• ISBN 13: 9780395710210
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 26
• Illustrator: Mathers Petra