It Starts with a Seed

By Laura Knowles

Book Overview

With lyrical text and enchanting illustrations, this award-winning picture book takes you on a journey through the seasons and years as you follow a seed's transformation from a seedling to a sapling, then a young tree, until it becomes a large tree with its branches and roots filling the page.

As the tree grows, it is joined by well-loved woodland creatures--squirrels and rabbits, butterflies and owls--who make it their home. A rhyming poem builds page on page, echoing the rings of a growing tree. The story culminates with a foldout page showing a mature tree shedding seeds to continue the beautiful cycle of life. At the back, find the full poem and facts about the specific tree, a sycamore.

Beautiful and evocative, It Starts With a Seed is a factual story that will touch children with its simple, enchanting message of life and growth.

A 2018 Outstanding Science Trade Book for Students: K-12 (National Science Teachers Association and the Children's Book Council)

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1910277266
• ISBN13: 9781910277263
• Release Date: September 2017
• Publisher: Words & Pictures
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.3" x 11.6"
• Age Range: 6 to 9 years
• Grade Range: Grades 1 to 4