It's Fall! (Celebrate the Seasons)

Glaser, Linda

ISBN 10: 0761317589 ISBN 13: 9780761317586

Publisher: Millbrook Pr, 2001

Synopsis

A child experiences the colors and textures of fall. Includes nature activities to do during that season.

About this title

About the Author:

Linda Glaser is the award-winning author of over 30 children's books including the Sydney Taylor Award-winning Hannah’s Way and Reading Rainbow featured book Our Big Home, An Earth Poem. In addition to teaching and writing, she conducts writing workshops for schoolchildren and adults. She lives in Minnesota.

From School Library Journal:

reS-Gr 1-A young boy describes what happens to animals, plants, and people in the autumn. Simple sentences explain that geese, hawks, and monarch butterflies migrate while other creatures hibernate, including the ladybug, earthworm, and frog. While the imagery of the harvest moon and silky milkweed is vivid, at times the text's rhythm feels awkward-"It's fall!/The air is turning crisp and cold./It's time to wear our warmer clothes./We put on jackets and pants and long sleeves/to keep us warm when it turns breezy." The stunning cut-paper art in the spectrum of autumn colors is highly detailed, richly textured, and fully supports the text. A long list of seasonal nature activities at the end of the book includes collecting seeds to plant in spring and going outside with a grown-up to look at the moon and stars. Consider Zoe Hall's Fall Leaves Fall! (2000) and It's Pumpkin Time! (1994, both Scholastic) as simpler companions.

Linda M. Kenton, San Rafael Public Library, CA

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About this edition

• Publisher: Millbrook Pr
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0761317589
• ISBN 13: 9780761317586
• Binding: Library Binding
• Number of pages: 32
• Illustrator: Swan Susan