Our Seasons

by Grace Lin (Author) Grace Lin (Illustrator)

Our Seasons
Reading Level: K − 1st Grade
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.
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In this intriguing combination of poetry and nonfiction, each season is given three double-spreads, containing a haiku and a science question-and-answer. In Spring, for example, “Lily hears thunder. / ‘You don’t have to yell!’ she calls. / Still, the sky grumbles.” The sidebar asks, “What makes a thunderstorm?” and explains how hot air rising quickly causes the electrical buildup that results in thunder and lightning. The questions are relevant to children (“Why do I sneeze?”) and the answers clear and thorough. Lin’s vivid gouache illustrations and multi-ethnic characters Lily, Owen, Ki-ki and Kevin are terrifically appealing. If the haikus aren’t quite to the level of Jack Prelutsky’s If Not For the Cat (2004) or George Shannon’s Spring (1996), that’s a small quibble given that this has the potential to interest children in both poetry and science. (Picture book/poetry/nonfiction. 5-10)


Review quotes

"In this intriguing combination of poetry and nonfiction, each season is given three double-spreads containing a haiku and a science question-and-answer. . . . Lin's vivid gouache illustrations and multi-ethnic characters Lily, Owen, Ki-ki and Kevin are terrifically appealing."
Grace Lin
Grace Lin is the award-winning and bestselling author and illustrator of Starry River of the Sky, Where the Mountain Meets the Moon, The Year of the Dog, The Year of the Rat, Dumpling Days, and Ling & Ting, as well as pictures books such as The Ugly Vegetables and Caldecott Honor book A Big Mooncake for Little Star. Grace lives with her husband and daughter in Western MA, where they get plenty of winter snow. Her website is www.gracelin.com.
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ISBN-13
9781570913617
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Guided Reading Level
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Publisher
Charlesbridge Publishing
Publication date
July 01, 2007
Series
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BISAC categories
JNF051000 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Science & Nature | General
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