Books like Pumpkin Jack
By Will Hubbell
For the kid who wants to know what happens to the jack-o'-lantern after Halloween is over, this book answers the question with patience instead of a quick toss in the trash. Quiet, seasonal, a little wondrous, unhurried.
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.
A child looks closely at a single flower, using every sense to explore its color, its scent, its texture — and discovers a whole universe unfolding from one small bloom.
A nonfiction exploration of how fruits work as traveling cases for seeds, protecting them and helping plants scatter their seeds to new places to grow.
A small island in the sea moves through the changing seasons, day turning to night and a storm rolling in, as its plants and creatures live out the rhythm of the year.
A farm boy obsessed with snow teaches himself to photograph snowflakes under a microscope, spending decades proving that no two are ever alike.
A rhyming journey through a small pond as spring turns to autumn, following tadpoles, herons, and other creatures through their busy, splashing days.
A collection of poems follows a pond through the seasons, from spring thaw to autumn chill, giving voice to water boatmen, painted turtles, diving beetles, and duckweed along the way.
A quiet walk through woods, pasture, and pond becomes a chance to spot birds, insects, and other hidden creatures as die-cut flaps fold out to reveal what's really there.
A year moves through spring, summer, autumn, and winter as each season is felt through its colors — red singing from treetops, blue dancing on summer lakes, green waiting quietly in winter trees.
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.
A single raindrop falls from the sky and grows into a puddle, then a pond, a lake, a river, and finally the sea, meeting animals and plants along the way.
A nonfiction tour of twelve animals — from ladybugs to lungfish to desert hedgehogs — that survive summer's heat and dry spells by sleeping through them, and why each one does it.
