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Look What I Did with a Leaf!

Name: Look What I Did with a Leaf!
Author: Morteza E. Sohi
ISBN: 9780802774408

by Morteza E. Sohi

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Overview

Look What I Did with a Leaf! will show young art and craft lovers how to use nature's bounty to create fanciful animals and natural scenes. Readers will develop their artistic eye and soon learn to see the artistic possibilities that surround them. Morteza E. Sohi gives careful directions on how to choose leaves for shape and color, how to arrange them in an animal form, and how to preserve the finished work of art. A field guide helps young leaf artists learn more about the tools of their craft.

Provides examples of different kinds of animals that can be made out of leaves and suggests various uses for the finished product.

Synopsis

Publishers Weekly

This unusual look at the natural world explains how to create fanciful animals from leaves. Ages 4-8. (Sept.)

About the Author, Morteza E. Sohi

Morteza E. Sohi has illustrated and designed many books for children published in his native Iran. Look What I Did with a Leaf!, his first book to be published in the United States was a best-seller with nearly 200,000 copies sold. He is also author of Look What I Did with a Shell!

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Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly

This unusual look at the natural world explains how to create fanciful animals from leaves. Ages 4-8. (Sept.)

Children's Literature - Marilyn Courtot

A book that offers fun projects that can be used in conjunction with science classes or outdoor family treks. For example, kids can create pictures of animals using various kinds and sizes of leaves. The directions are clear and so are the bright and cheery illustrations. An American Bookseller "Pick of the Lists" and a CCBC Choices selection.

Children's Literature - Mary Quattlebaum

Kids learn to collect and prepare leaves as the basic material for animal constructions. The book also offers tips on using the leaf animals as ornaments, placemats or stationery and includes informative, non-intrusive sections on the life cycle and identification of leaves. A great guide to focusing on what's around you.

School Library Journal

Gr 3-6-A unique combination of nature craft, art theory, and field guide, attractively packaged. The bulk of the book is an enjoyable album of collage animals cleverly and realistically formed out of leaves in an array of sizes, shapes, and autumnal colors. Each white page is graced by a single easily identifiable creature, among the most striking a butterfly, a cow, and a peacock. In a conversational tone with rich vocabulary, the text discusses considerations in creating the projects and encourages a variety of texture and effect through the use of color, contrast, shape, and size. ``Art Notes'' provide tidbits of peripheral advice for simplifying the projects. The book concludes with step-by-step how-to information for readers to assemble their own masterpieces, an explanation and diagram of the life cycle of a leaf, and a simple field guide that identifies the samples used in the models. Well written, uniquely illustrated, and inspiring, this will work beautifully with a science lesson that includes an outdoor trek and art project.-Valerie Lennox, Jacksonville Public Library, FL