Overview
Author/illustrator Diane Iverson introduces the young child to the wonders of the changing seasons in Discover the Seasons. Rich illustrations and sensitive poetry vividly capture the unique spirit of each part of the year: celebration for spring, learning for summer, work for fall and rest for winter. Each theme is then explored through hands-on activities that adults and children can share. Tasty recipes using freshly gathered fruits and vegetables provide the final, irresistible highlight for each season.Author Biography: Diane is a wildlife artist and a grandma who has never outgrown splashing in puddles and climbing trees. She lives with her husband in Prescott, Arizona, where they enjoy camping and backpacking. She devotes a great deal of time to conservation education programs in schools. Diane is the author and illustrator of three Dawn books: My Favorite Tree, Discover the Seasons and I Celebrate Nature.
Synopsis
Author/illustrator Diane Iverson introduces the young child to the wonders of the changing seasons in Discover the Seasons. Rich illustrations and sensitive poetry vividly capture the unique spirit of each part of the year: celebration for spring, learning for summer, work for fall and rest for winter. Each theme is then explored through hands-on activities that adults and children can share. Tasty recipes using freshly gathered fruits and vegetables provide the final, irresistible highlight for each season.
Discover the Seasons is a very special book about the wonders of the changing seasons that is meant to be shared by adults and children alike. Each of the four seasons is captured in sensitive poetry and colorful prose, accompanied by seven pages of breathtaking watercolor illustrations depicting nature at its finest and most intimate. Diane Iverson explores the unique spirit of each season - celebration for spring, learning for summer, work for fall and rest for winter, and two pages of super hands-on activities follow each seasonal theme (using recycled materials). For example, Things to Do in the Spring includes Color Search, Bird Nests, Wildflower Gardens, Map Your Garden, Garden Labels, Receipt for Hummingbirds, and a Spring Flower Mobile. . . . Discover the Seasons is a highly recommended book for classrooms and home libraries about nature, ecology and conservation that will be savoured by parents, teachers and children (Home and School News)
Author Biography: Diane is a wildlife artist and a grandma who has never outgrown splashing in puddles and climbing trees. She lives with her husband in Prescott, Arizona, where they enjoy camping and backpacking. She devotes a great deal of time to conservation education programs in schools. Diane is the author and illustrator of three Dawn books: My Favorite Tree, Discover the Seasons and I Celebrate Nature.
Publishers Weekly
Rhymes, recipes, crafts and realistic, double-page illustrations encourage readers to celebrate the seasons in this combination picture book/activity book. Beginning with spring, each season is introduced with flowery, at times slightly reaching poems ("Green grass turns gold/ in the glowing sun./ Ripe sweetness fills the air./ Little ones sniff/ and taste and run,/ Content with nature's fare") set against high-color, amply detailed spreads featuring animals in their natural habitats. The subjects of each picture are further described in prose, more factual than the verse but still fairly purplish. Activities for each season range from the tried and true (wire-hanger mobiles, milk-carton birdfeeder, etc.) to the easy but inventive (save dryer lint for bird nests, make hummingbird nectar). Of the recipes, the most intriguing is the break-all-categories peach treat cooked in a "solar oven" made of black construction paper and foil. An unexceptional but more or less satisfying smorgasbord for the entire family. Ages 3-10. (Apr.)