Book
Drawn from nature
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Publication Information
Somerville, Massachusetts : Big Picture Press, an imprint of Candlewick Press, 2018.
Physical Description
60 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Audience
Ages 6-9.
Summary
An intricately crafted journey through four seasons of flora and fauna. Helen Ahpornsiri's intricate artwork transforms leaves, petals, and seeds into bounding hares, swooping swallows, and blossoming trees. Using nothing but pressed plants, this journey through the seasons captures the wonder and magic of the natural world between the pages of a book. This standout title with beautiful nonfiction text will take readers through an extraordinary year in the wild.
Notes
"Art made from plants & flowers"--Jacket and book cover.
Contents
- Spring: The spring chorus ; Nest building ; The trees awake ; Growing up ; Hares are hopping ; Pond life ; All in a row ; Butterflies & blossoms
- Summer: In the meadow ; Swallows swooping ; Crickets chirping ; In the reeds ; Glorious green leaves ; Buds & bees ; Summer nights
- Autumn: Deer rutting ; Golden leaves ; Dandelion puffs ; Time to fly ; Nuts & berries ; Forest fungi
- Winter: Hibernation ; Bare branches ; Birds of a feather ; Winter berries ; Robin redbreast ; Red fox at night
- A note from the artist.
Subjects
- Seasons > Juvenile literature.
- Nature > Juvenile literature.
- Natural history > Juvenile literature.
- Nature study > Juvenile literature.
- Nature craft > Juvenile literature.
- Plant prints > Juvenile literature.
- Collage > Juvenile literature.
- Pressed flower pictures > Juvenile literature.
- Botanical specimens > Juvenile literature.
- Nature.
- Seasons.
- Animals.