This Is the Sunflower

by Lola M. Schaefer

Book Overview

First there is a sunflower.Seasons pass ... and soon there is a patch of sunflowers.Budding young gardeners will discover that what makes this happen is not magic - but is most definitely magical. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0688164137
• ISBN13: 9780688164133
• Release Date: April 2000
• Publisher: Greenwillow Books
• Length: 24 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 7.9" x 10.1"
• Age Range: 4 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3

Customer Reviews

Wonderful book for the nature-minded child

Very well-written book that covers the life cycle of a plant. The repetition is helpful for children (though a tad monotonous for the reader if it's been a long day already). It tells a valuable lesson, too: When the sunflower dies the book takes on somber tone, but then the reader sees all the beautiful new sunflowers that came from the seeds of the previous one. This lesson could be interpreted in so many different ways -- all of them lovely.

Good Read-aloud science book for early grades!

A wonderful read-aloud book for Pre-school through grade 2. Children love the rhyming repetitive verse and with the bold, beautiful illustrations by Donald Crews it will keep an entire classroom's attention. Very good book for a science unit on seeds. It's hard to find fun things to compliment a lesson on seeds, but this book fills that gap. Every elementary school library should have this book in their collection.