Written by Joyce Sidman
Illustrated by Pamela Zagarenski
Houghton Mifflin 2009
32 pages
Poetry
This story takes the reader through all the different seasons throughout the year by connecting to all of your senses; taste, touch, sight, and smell. These poems also contain all the different colors for each season. These poems makes it less concrete and helps you to actually feel the seasons and all the different elements that makeup each season. "In winter, Green waits in the hearts of trees, feeling the Earth turn." I chose this book because of how beautifully the sentences are worded.
Like the writing throughout the books, the illustrations do a good job of letting the reader feel each season instead of just simply reading about them. When a color is stated in a sentence, it is make bold so that it stands out from the rest of the sentence. The medium of the illustrations are mixed media paintings on wood and also computer illustrations. All of the colors make the poetry that much better. The colors are rich, warm, bright, and bold. The book received a Caldecott Medal in 2010.
This book could be used in the classroom when discussing the different elements that make up each season. The class could also discuss using imagery in their writing to make the reader really feel whatever it is that you are describing in their writing. Another activity that could be practiced using the story as a guide would be getting your class to practice using colors to describe different feelings, such as blues for calmness or greens and browns for that natural feel.
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