The Horn Book Guide

LITERATURE

Paolilli, Paul , Brewer, Dan

Silver Seeds: A Book of Nature Poems

32 pp. | Viking | March, 2001 | Trade ISBN 0-670-88941-5 $$15.99

(3) K-3 Illustrated by Steve Johnson & Lou Fancher. Brief, free verse poems about the natural world offer accessible yet vivid images. "Trees" are "Tiny hands / Reaching up from the / Earth, tickling an / Enormous / Sky." In other poems, hills resemble huge sleeping elephants, clouds become creamy scoops of ice cream, and stars sprout like silver seeds in the night sky. A boy and a girl appear throughout sparely composed, color-drenched paintings that capture a sense of wonder.

Reviewer: Carolyn Shute