| View Larger Image | Our Seasons | Paperbackby Ranida T. Mckneally (Author), Grace Lin (Illustrator)
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| | Binding: | Paperback | | Publisher: | Charlesbridge Publishing | | Page Count: | 32 Pages | | Publication Date: | June 01, 2007 | | Sales Rank: | 453,776rd |
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FEATURES | - ISBN13: 9781570913617
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What's your favorite season? Follow Ki-ki, Owen, Lily, and Kevin through the year as they explore the four seasons. Cheerful haiku accompany season-related questions and answers about weather, the natural world, and the human body. Find out why we have seasons and how they vary around the world. |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.0 based on 1 review)
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Science Q&A plus haiku by Experienced Editor (Illinois, United States)  4 Stars
October 15, 2009
In this unusual picture book arts and science come together in one intriguing presentation. Cheerful haiku and richly colored paintings interact with serious questions and answers about weather, seasons, and their effect on the human body.
The first question, "Why do we have seasons?" sets up a simple explanation of how the earth tilts on its axis. From this broad beginning, the text zeroes in on familiar yet interesting questions ranging from "What makes the wind?" to "Why do I tan?"
Within each seasonal section, movement from the natural world to the child's own experience is logical. For example, the question "Why do I see my breath?" follows "Why is there frost on the window?" Both answers involve water vapor. Asking "Why do bees like flowers?" leads to "Why do I sneeze?" No surprisingly, these answers mention pollen.
The accompanying haiku feature four friends, Ki-Ki, Owen, Lily, and Kevin, who further personalize the science. The prose answer to "Why do my cheeks turn red in the cold?" explains about blood vessels and warmth, while the haiku on the facing page offers the more imaginative theory that "Owen's cheeks turn red / From the cold lipstick kisses / Given by the wind." This contrast provides much to enjoy and ponder.
Lin's luminous gouache paintings fill three-quarters of each spread; that is, a full page plus half of the facing page for each illustration. The effect is that readers are pulled into the warm and colorful scenes. Especially lovely is a vivid garden in which Lily, in matching flowered hat, caresses the flowers.
Occasionally, oversimplification causes a loss of clarity. The page on "Why do leaves change color?" contains the circular definition, "The color of leaves depends on what kind of pigment they have in their cells. Pigments are tiny spots of color." In other words, the color of leaves depends on their color--which is true but not particularly enlightening. Fortunately, explanations are more often right on target for young readers.
From the close-up specifics within the four seasonal sections, the final text returns to a broader view. The query "Does everyone have four seasons?" launches a simple explanation about how being at the equator or at one of the poles causes different seasons (wet and dry or light and dark, respectively), reminding readers of the earth's tilting axis from the introduction.
Preschool and primary kids, busy learning about the world we live in, are usually fascinated by science and nature. Our Seasons offers artistic, poetic, and scientific approaches to our world in one enticing package.
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