"Snowmen droop / Cardinals swoop, Rabbits bounce / Foxes pounce". In the early days of spring when the snow begins to melt, plants and animals stir to life. High-impact photos and simple, rhyming text make for an engaging read-aloud while back matter offers more detail about each of the creatures featured in this celebration of spring's arrival. --from Amazon.

A collection of poems that celebrates the seasons, with illustrations for each season by a different Minnesota artist.

Poems about the four seasons, as reflected in the natural world, are accompanied by photographs of quilts made by the author.

"A collection of original poems that celebrate family, universal childhood experiences, and the pure pleasure a young girl feels as her mastery and understanding grow throughout the seasons of a year"--

"Poetry is a child's first introduction to the joy of language and to the enchanted world of books. Poetry's lilting rhythms and rhymes, and its short, simple sentences and clever repetition of key words and phrases start children's eyes, minds, and hearts dancing along the rhythmical lines of poetry and into a lifelong love of lyrical language. It is the joyous power of poetry that turns listeners into reader and readers into writers. With each turn...