Books like A Seed Grows
By Antoinette Portis
For the kid who digs in the garden and asks what's happening underground, this book answers with a close-up view of the whole hidden process. Quiet, patient, and grounded, with a big satisfying payoff at the end.
As the sun comes up, birds, horses, rabbits, flowers, and bugs wake one by one, until finally the children rise to greet the day too.
A gentle look at all the reasons trees are good to have around — for climbing, for shade, for leaf piles to roll in, and for birds to build nests in.
On a late winter night, a young girl and her father walk silently into snowy woods, calling into the darkness in hopes that a real owl will answer back.
Twelve poems follow one family through a full year, from January sledding to July fireworks to autumn leaves underfoot, finding wonder in each month's particular light and weather.
A little bunny, tucked into bed in a great green room, says goodnight one by one to everything around him — the moon, the clocks, the mittens, the kittens — until sleep comes.
A wide-awake little boy travels from cave to sea to mountain peak, visiting one sleeping animal friend after another, hoping to find the perfect way to finally rest.
A six-year-old boy spends his days in his grandfather Luis's towering garden, learning bird names, playful expressions, and reading and writing from a grandfather who never had schooling of his own.
A girl and her grandmother gather salmon, herring eggs, and berries across the seasons on their island home, singing to the land as it sings back to them.
A day in the life of family and friends unfolds from morning to night, moving from a tiny shell on the beach to the wide, darkening sunset sky.
Two kids leave their paved, noisy neighborhood on an adventure through woods and fields, searching for wildness — and discovering it lives in bark, storms, flowers, and fruit, not just far away.
An elderly, mysterious figure closes his book each evening and walks through a hushed forest, carrying out a quiet nightly task that brings twilight to the world.
