Books like Over in the Meadow
By Olive A. Wadsworth
For the child who wants to count everything in sight, this turns numbers into a parade of animal families to meet one by one. Gentle, musical, sunlit meadow warmth.
A rhyming romp through all twelve months, each one celebrated with a bowl of chicken soup with rice — from snowy January to a windy, wild December.
Ten red apples hang on the farmer's tree, and one by one a horse, cow, pig, duck, and other farm animals wander by, each neighing, mooing, or oinking before munching an apple down.
A rhyming celebration of babies everywhere, counting ten little fingers and ten little toes on roly-poly little ones from all kinds of families and places.
A collection of poems that offer instructions for everyday wonders and wild imaginings alike — how to toast a marshmallow, meet a hedgehog, or even become a snowflake.
A student gets stuck with a science curse after his teacher claims poetry is everywhere in science, and suddenly every rhyme in his head turns into a poem about amoebas, black holes, or the food chain.
Familiar nursery rhymes get an Alaskan makeover, swapping in snow geese, musk oxen, sea otters, and Arctic foxes as the North Country's wild critters take center stage.
A gentle catalog of everyday things — a spoon, an apple, the rain, a daisy — each one examined for its single most important quality, in rhythmic, repeating verse.
Monarch butterflies leave Canada each fall and fly all the way to Mexico, crossing snow-capped mountains and deserts to reach the forests their ancestors once called home.
A rhyming romp through everything that counts as a house — anthills, dog kennels, corn husks, pea pods — and eventually the surprising idea that a shoe, a mirror, even a word, might have a house too.
Four tiny books in one: alligators march through the alphabet, a boy named Johnny counts his ever-growing pile of visitors, a boy named Pierre refuses to care about anything, and a hungry someone eats chicken soup with rice in every month of the year.
A garden fills up with counting fun as a mole digs a hole, parrots pull up carrots, bears pick pears, and bees prune trees with tiny shears — one busy number at a time.
