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Summary
A guessing game in a book that celebrates the curiosity and delight of a jaunt through a garden, meadow, and alongside a brook.
A child steps outside and strolls along, taking in the sights and sounds of nature. Rhythmic, rhyming text tracks his journey through a garden, meadow, and next to a brook, introducing a new color and animal found in that ecosystem with every turn of the page, transforming an ordinary walk into a feast for the senses.
Complete with material that explains the rich variety of wildlife and natural habitats found in the book, author Dianne White's playful text is paired with the vibrant collage artwork of Amy Schimler-Safford, making for an exciting read-aloud and guessing game for budding nature lovers.
Author Notes
Dianne White is the author of numerous children's picture books, including the award-winning Blue on Blue , Who Eats Orange? , Green on Green , and Winter Lullaby . As a child, she loved reading books, playing music, and learning new languages. Years later, as a teacher, all three favorites followed her into the classroom. By day, she read great books, sang, and even taught kids who were learning English for the first time. At night, she worked on picture books, which she now has the pleasure of doing full time. She lives in Arizona. Visit her at diannewrites.com
Amy Schimler-Safford has illustrated several books for children, including Inky's Great Escape- How a Very Smart Octopus Found His Way Home , and Hidden City- Poems of Urban Life . She started her career in textile and surface design. She now illustrates children's books and lives on a lake in Georgia with her family and lots of country critters, all of whom provide Amy with a constant source of amusement and inspiration. Visit her at amyschimler.com
Reviews (1)
Booklist Review
White (Green on Green, 2020) offers here another rhymed picture book focusing on the natural world. "In the garden, flowers grow. / Hues of color, row on row. / Who's that buzzing? Listen. See. / A fuzzy, YELLOW busy . . . / Bee." Surveying three habitats (a garden, a meadow, and a brook), she poses simple queries whose answers complete a rhyming couplet. Questions appear on the right sides of most spreads; a page turn reveals the answer on the left side of the following spread. Schimler-Safford's mixed-media artwork boasts bright, sunny colors, varied textures, and effective layering that helps to camouflage creatures on the question pages. And while the depicted animals are effectively hidden when first described, these spreads never appear cluttered. The art is also careful to depict details about these animals not cited in the main text but mentioned in the author's appended note. A great summer read-aloud and prelude to a walk; allow time to peruse the art for the hidden creatures.
