Summer Song
Ratings2
Average rating3.5
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Ratings2
Average rating3.5
"A vibrant and sophisticated ode to nature." --Kirkus (starred review) From Caldecott Medalist and Newbery Honor author Kevin Henkes and acclaimed painter Laura Dronzek, the bestselling and award-winning creators of Winter Is Here, When Spring Comes, and In the Middle of Fall, this book about summer celebrates the sights, sounds, and smells of the season. Bees buzz, birds sing, and children roll in the grass and feel the heat of the summer sun. With striking verbal imagery, repetition, and alliteration, Kevin Henkes introduces basic concepts of language and the summer season. Laura Dronzek's glowing paintings beautifully illustrate the wonders of summer. In the Middle of Fall, Winter Is Here, When Spring Comes, and Summer Song make for a beautiful quartet of seasonal-theme picture books to share at home or in the classroom. Ideal for introducing the season, for story time, and for bedtime reading.
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“If I had to pick one color,
I'd say Summer is green.
Green on green on green.
Summer is a green song.”
Author Kevin Henkes walks us through all the sounds of summer—grass in the wind, sprinklers, birds, lawn mowers—and all the colors of summer—yellow summer sun, gray fog, blue beach—and returns to the idea that started him out...summer is a green song. And then he eases it out and as it changes, changes, into fall.
