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Synopsis
Fall is here and Kate is determined to save her flowers from the winter cold. Mom shows her how to scoop the flowers out of the ground, transplant them into pots, and give them water. Kate pots a couple flowers . . . and then some more...and a few more. With Mom distracted on the phone, Kate has filled the house with flowers, but Dad s sneezes mean the flowers have to go! Kate realizes she needs to find a new place for her flowers to spend the winter, but where?
This fictional story includes a 4-page For Creative Minds section in the back of the book and a 27-page cross-curricular Teaching Activity Guide online. Saving Kate's Flowers is vetted by experts and designed to encourage parental engagement. Its extensive back matter helps teachers with time-saving lesson ideas, provides extensions for science, math, and social studies units, and uses inquiry-based learning to help build critical thinking skills in young readers. The Spanish translation supports ELL and dual-language programs. The enhanced ebook reads aloud in both English and Spanish with word highlighting and audio speed control to promote oral language skills, fluency, pronunciation, text engagement, and reading comprehension.
Keywords: anthropomorphic/personification, flowers, plants (annual/perennial), seasons, basic needs, life cycle, outside activity
Salvando las flores de Camelia (Spanish version)
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From the Author
Saving Kate's Flowers has received the 2017 Crystal Kite Award from the SCBWI for the New York region!!!
About the Author
Cindy Sommer's love for gardening started at a young age while admiring her mother's green thumb. She passed this love of plants on to her daughters, who are the inspiration behind her debut picture book, Saving Kate's Flowers. Along with gardening, Cindy has always had a passion for writing, a passion she cultivated with a BA in English from SUNY Oneonta. Cindy does her gardening and writing at her home on Long Island, along with her husband, two daughters, two dogs, and horse.
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- PublisherArbordale Publishing
- Publication date2016
- ISBN 10 1628558709
- ISBN 13 9781628558708
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages32
- IllustratorLaurie Allen Klein
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