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I Love The Seasons - Summer
What do you love about summer? Do you enjoy the long days and playing outside? Perhaps you like summer foods like ice creams?
In this series explore the many different things to love about the seasons and find to how they affect plants and animals. With beautiful illustrations and simple text, the books give younger readers a great introduction to what happens during the seasons.
Lizzie Scott is a writer and editor of non-fiction books for children who particularly loves plants, animals and the environment. Stephanie Fizer Coleman is an experienced children’s book illustrator who loves illustrating birds. This is a beautifully put-together book (part of a series) for readers aged 5+ that explores different aspects of summer and invites readers to think about what summer means to them and what they like about it.
What I really like about this book is that it has a conversational tone to it. Scott starts by talking about what she likes about summer before going on to talk about different aspects of summer. So for example, she talks about the weather and what you wear for the weather before going on to look at how nature is affected by summer and the changes that it goes through. Scott constantly invites the reader to think about different aspects of summer themselves, such as what kind of food they like to eat in summer and what they like to do at the beach, which is a great way of keeping the reader engaged and thinking about what they’re reading and is also a nice way of giving any adult readers helping younger readers to engage with them about the text. Fizer Coleman’s illustrations work perfectly with the text - luscious and languid but with a real sense of space and colour and fun.
All in all, I think this is a really well put-together, well thought-through book that encourages the reader to think about what summer is and what it means to them. I’d definitely check out the other books in this series on the strength of this one.
The Verdict:
Lizzie Scott is a writer and editor of non-fiction books for children who particularly loves plants, animals and the environment. Stephanie Fizer Coleman is an experienced children’s book illustrator who loves illustrating birds. This is a beautifully put-together book (part of a series) for readers aged 5+ that explores different aspects of summer and invites readers to think about what summer means to them and what they like about it.
Thanks to the Amazon Vine Programme for the review copy of this book.
What do you love about summer? Do you enjoy the long days and playing outside? Perhaps you like summer foods like ice creams?
In this series explore the many different things to love about the seasons and find to how they affect plants and animals. With beautiful illustrations and simple text, the books give younger readers a great introduction to what happens during the seasons.
Lizzie Scott is a writer and editor of non-fiction books for children who particularly loves plants, animals and the environment. Stephanie Fizer Coleman is an experienced children’s book illustrator who loves illustrating birds. This is a beautifully put-together book (part of a series) for readers aged 5+ that explores different aspects of summer and invites readers to think about what summer means to them and what they like about it.
What I really like about this book is that it has a conversational tone to it. Scott starts by talking about what she likes about summer before going on to talk about different aspects of summer. So for example, she talks about the weather and what you wear for the weather before going on to look at how nature is affected by summer and the changes that it goes through. Scott constantly invites the reader to think about different aspects of summer themselves, such as what kind of food they like to eat in summer and what they like to do at the beach, which is a great way of keeping the reader engaged and thinking about what they’re reading and is also a nice way of giving any adult readers helping younger readers to engage with them about the text. Fizer Coleman’s illustrations work perfectly with the text - luscious and languid but with a real sense of space and colour and fun.
All in all, I think this is a really well put-together, well thought-through book that encourages the reader to think about what summer is and what it means to them. I’d definitely check out the other books in this series on the strength of this one.
The Verdict:
Lizzie Scott is a writer and editor of non-fiction books for children who particularly loves plants, animals and the environment. Stephanie Fizer Coleman is an experienced children’s book illustrator who loves illustrating birds. This is a beautifully put-together book (part of a series) for readers aged 5+ that explores different aspects of summer and invites readers to think about what summer means to them and what they like about it.
Thanks to the Amazon Vine Programme for the review copy of this book.
