Author: Knowles, Laura
Interest age: from c 5 years
Published on 3 September 2019 by Quarto Publishing PLC (words & pictures) in the United Kingdom as part of 'the It Starts With A' series.
Paperback | 34 pages
294 x 211 x 2 | 196g
With lyrical text, enchanting illustrations and a beautiful fold-out scene to complete the story, 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 fold-out 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.
?It Starts with a Seed was the winner of the inaugural Margaret Mallett Award for Children's Non-Fiction.