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K-3
Illustrated by
Megan Halsey.
In this informative picture book, a girl explains the changes on her farm throughout the year. A sunflower's evolution from seed to bloom to seed again neatly captures the cycle of all living things. The text, printed over collaged pages from The Old Farmer's Almanac, is occasionally hard to read, but the colorful mixed-media art captures life on the farm.