A Book of Seasons
by Alice Provensen, Martin Provensen
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An easy-to-read description of the continuously changing seasons.Tags
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Many of us have a book or two from their early childhood that we seek out as adults with memories based on half-remembered (and frequently misremembered) details. This picture book was one of mine, and I just found it! The only particulars I had to work off of were 1) an illustration of an ice-skating boy positioned with his skates perpendicular to one another (incidentally, this gave me the conviction that this is how one skated), and 2) the last page depicted a garden archway covered in flowers.
As for the book itself, it's a joyful look at all the fun things there are to do as the seasons change (assuming you live in a clime with changing seasons). The illustrations are cute, and I'm delighted to have successfully hunted it down, show more despite it being out of print and not having aged well with respect to diverse representation. show less
As for the book itself, it's a joyful look at all the fun things there are to do as the seasons change (assuming you live in a clime with changing seasons). The illustrations are cute, and I'm delighted to have successfully hunted it down, show more despite it being out of print and not having aged well with respect to diverse representation. show less
I love the Provensons' cheery art style, and this book was one of my favorites as a child. It's a great start to talking about the seasons with kindergartners or other young kids. Just watch out for the kid in summer who looks like he's gotten conked on the head with an apple...
A beautiful book about enjoying the seasons in New England. It may not be relevant to life everywhere, but I remember the pictures from my childhood and my one-year-old loves it too.
This is a very simple book with minimal descriptions of the seasons and what may one do during that season. Not a book for upper elementary.
This book gives the basics on all the seasons going from winter back again. I especially like the ending, "Spring is here again. Spring is the earth's birthday."
An easy-to-read description of the continuously changing seasons.
an introduction book about the different seasons and how we act during the seasons, the weather
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Alice Provensen was born Alice Rose Twitchell in Chicago, Illinois on August 14, 1918. She took classes at the Art Institute of Chicago and at the University of California at Los Angeles before finding a job at the animation studio of Walter Lantz. She met her future husband, Martin Provensen, while he was working on a Navy training film during show more World War II. They married in 1944 and relocated to Washington D.C., where she worked as a graphic artist for the Office of Strategic Services. They later moved to New York and became known as an author-illustrator picture book team. They created many award-winning picture books including A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Inexperienced Travelers by Nancy Willard, which won a 1982 Caldecott Honor, and The Glorious Flight: Across the Channel with Louis Bleriot, which won the 1984 Caldecott Medal. Their other books included A Year at Maple Hill Farm, Our Animal Friends at Maple Hill Farm, Karen's Curiosity, Karen's Opposites, The Fuzzy Duckling, Katie the Kitten, The Color Kittens by Margaret Wise Brown, and A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson. They also created Tony the Tiger, which was the advertising symbol of Kellogg's Frosted Flakes. She continued working after her husband's death in 1987. Her books included The Buck Stops Here: The Presidents of the United States, A Day in the Life of Murphy, Punch in New York, and Klondike Gold. She died on April 23, 2018 at the age of 99. show less
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- Original publication date
- 1976
- First words
- Winter is here.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)It comes again and again and again.
- Original language
- English
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- Reviews
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- Languages
- English, French, Spanish
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