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From seeds dropped into soil to corn
bursting from its stalks,
everything in this garden is on the move!
Join in this rollicking good-time
celebration of gardening.
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Great
News!
Up, Down, and Around
by Katherine Ayres and illustrated by Nadine Bernard Westcott has
been chosen as the 2008 Pennsylvania One Book (Every Young
Child). The picture book will be used in libraries, preschools,
head start and kindergarten classrooms throughout Pennsylvania during
2008 and Ayres will be traveling to share her story with children.
From
School Library Journal
"This cheerful story is a pleasant introduction to planting and
prepositions. When two children help plant a garden, they learn that
some vegetables grow underground, some shoot up above it, and some grow
on vines that twine around and around... The rhyming text is simple, but
the words are well chosen... Children will enjoy finding various insects
on each page and talking about the roles they play in a garden. A good
choice for introducing how things grow."
From Booklist
"... this picture book depicts a bustling kitchen garden. Two children
help a man with planting, watering, and harvesting vegetables, while a
dog, a cat, and a rabbit observe the fun. All around them, snails,
caterpillars, birds, bugs, and worms creep, crawl, fly, climb, dig, and
generally cavort about this flourishing garden... a repeated theme in
the rhymed couplets is the direction plants grow: "Broccoli grows up. /
Beets grow down. / Green beans climb / around and around." The short
verses create a quick pace and an upbeat tempo throughout." |
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