A New Green Day
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5.0 • 2 Ratings
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- $11.99
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
If you listen, nature speaks. Explore nature through evocative riddles and bold imagery that take the reader from day to night and back again in this perfect read aloud.
From the author of the Sibert Honor-winning title Hey, Water! comes a book of poetic riddles that encourage young readers to explore the natural world.
Who scribbles on the sidewalk with glistening ink? Snail!
Who's a comma in a long, long sentence of a stream? Tadpole!
On each spread, children will solve riddles about the familiar animals, plants and the weather that one child encounters outdoors throughout a whole day. Active readers will delight in the clever language and striking illustrations.
A Junior Library Guild Selection
Selected for the CBC Champions of Change Showcase
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Giving voice to wonders great and small, Portis (Hey, Water!) crafts short poems about natural things and events encountered over the course of a summer day: a tadpole, thunder, an inchworm, mud. Each voice poses a provocative, lyrical riddle answered through the turn of a page: "Morning lays me on your pillow,/ an invitation, square and warm./ Come out and play!" An envelope? No. The page turn reveals a patch of sunlight, dense with shadows of leaves and branches, falling across a sleeping child's dark braid. Textures abound: "I'm a candy sucked smooth/ in the river's mouth./ Let me sweeten your pocket" reveals a piebald pebble. A veined leaf duplicates a tree's silhouette, fuzzy tendrils trail from a passing cloud, and starry night falls, "a black coat/ slipped around/ Earth's shoulders." The power of Portis's poems, and the surprise each page turn allows, lets readers experience familiar moments with awakened senses, offering them nothing less than a new world filled with fresh experiences. Ages 3 7.
