What Makes the Seasons? - Hardcover

Cash, Megan Montague

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 067003598X ISBN 13: 9780670035984

Publisher: Viking Juvenile, 2003

Synopsis

Why do leaves fall off trees?
What makes flowers bud? What makes snow?

In delightful rhyming verse, Megan Montague Cash asks and answers thoughtful questions children have about the weather and the seasons. As they walk outside or look out the window, children are naturally interested in knowing why the seasons change and what makes weather happen. With bold and colorful artwork that attracts the eye, now even the youngest readers have a chance to learn some of the reasons. With an adorable little girl shown on every spread, here is a book that will appeal to great teachers, wise parents, and most of all, curious kids!

About this title

About the Author:

Megan Montague Cash is also the author of I Saw the Sea and the Sea Saw Me.

From Booklist:

PreS-Gr. 1. A young African American girl and her cat frolic through the pages of this simple, rhyming introduction to the seasons by the creator of I Saw the Sea and the Sea Saw Me (2001). "Spring was here but couldn't stay. / Spring left on a summer day. / Plants that once were hardly there / now have flowers everywhere." Why are there flowers everywhere? "Plants grow best in summer light, / when days are long and warm and bright." Although the verse is quite ordinary and the approach not overly scientific ("Leaves use sun to make the food. / When there's less sun, leaves come unglued"), young children will come away with a basic understanding of the seasons and how Earth's yearly trip around the Sun affects the weather in both hemispheres. Thick black lines and cheerful paint-box colors enliven this useful study of seasonal cycles. Karin Snelson
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About this edition

• Publisher: Viking Juvenile
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 067003598X
• ISBN 13: 9780670035984
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 40