Sing in the Spring!
by Sheree Fitch
This title was previously available on NetGalley and is now archived.
Send NetGalley books directly to your Kindle or Kindle app
1
To read on a Kindle or Kindle app, please add kindle@netgalley.com as an approved email address to receive files in your Amazon account. Click here for step-by-step instructions.
2
Also find your Kindle email address within your Amazon account, and enter it here.
Pub Date 15 Mar 2022 | Archive Date 17 Mar 2022
Nimbus Publishing | Nimbus Publishing Limited
Talking about this book? Use #SpringSong #NetGalley. More hashtag tips!
Description
A playful, poetic picture book celebrating the coming of spring from the award-winning author of Summer Feet and featuring luminous original artwork by an internationally renowned quilt artist.
Buds of leaves
still curled in knots
just like teeny polka dots
spots of green on bare-branched trees
soon buds will bloom and leaves
unfurl
yes, shimmery light
on every thing.
Spring is sometimes a long time coming. As snow melts and winter slowly blows away, the earth begins its unfolding of new life and hopeful greening. While we can still snowshoe through the soft white and sip the clear, wintry air, we dream of the sparkle of spring, that wind-chapped-cheek time, where "baby fiddleheads sleep/like so many questions deep" and the sun comes "smiling in/as longer days of light begin."
A poetic celebration of the season, Spring Song! invites readers into a rural family home and the natural world that surrounds them. Tiny details and clues emerging from hibernation are a source of wonder, seeds hold secrets of sunflowers, and mudliscious puddles await!
A collection of verse germinating for years, ever since author Sheree Fitch first experienced the magical artwork of artist Deb Plestid, whose luminous, original quiltwork illustrates this gentle, vibrant book, brimming with the joy of spring.
A Note From the Publisher
This lovely picture book includes fourteen intricately quilted illustrations by artist Deb Plestid.
Available Editions
| EDITION | Hardcover |
| ISBN | 9781774710395 |
| PRICE | US$17.95 (USD) |
| PAGES | 32 |
Available on NetGalley
Featured Reviews
Marilyn P, Reviewer
This wonderful book is an ode to Spring, the long awaited season that follows a dormant and freezing Winter. Spring brings hope and freshness as the plants begin to sprout, the sun warms the earth once again, and every person is eager to get outside and partake of the welcomed changes that are occurring. Most people, both young and old, are weary of the ice, snow and having to bundle up when they go outside. Spring is the season that unleashes that pent-up energy from being tucked away inside and demands freedom for the captives once again.
"Sing in the Spring!" is a rhyming celebration of this magical season which transforms the icy white of Winter into vibrant greens and fragrant coloured blossoms.
"Buds of leaves
still curled in knots
just like teeny polka dots
spots of green on bare-branched trees
soon buds will bloom and leaves
unfurl
yes, shimmery light
on every thing."
The unique and delightful artwork of Deb Plestid is created from quiltwork labours of love and are stunning to behold. Both the illustrations and the poems will bring happiness to hearts as they interact with all the magic and transformations that Spring has to offer. I highly recommend this book.
Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for the advanced copy in exchange for an honest review.
Readers who liked this book also liked:
Carine Laforest, illustrations by Animation Cafe
Children's Fiction
