A book about seasons as beautiful as spring

Ah spring. The birds are chirping, the buds are poking through the soil, and if you ask the sigOth, miniskirts are making appearances on the leggy 20-somethings in our neighborhood. What's not to love? Right in time, I've found a delicious little book to help the kids understand and celebrate the changing of the seasons.

 

It's called, aptly, Seasons, and Swiss author/illustrator Anne Crausaz does a beautiful job describing the small joys and big changes that each season brings, starting with spring. This isn't the same old "oh look--the flowers have buds" kind of book. It reads almost like a poem, highlighting tastes and smells and sensations like how a ladybug landing on you might tickle.

Crausaz's work feels more Asian or European in its sensibility; don't expect any sort of big character arc or rousing plotline here. It's just sweet and poetic and pretty, as the author suggests you listen to the silence of the snow or taste the sweet-sour of summer's blackberries. Kirkus described it as a "visual haiku" and I think that's apt.

Sesasons is a great early reader book, or a nice storybook for a younger child. Surely it's one we'll be pulling out every time the seasons change to see what comes next. Although I admit I'm hoping spring lasts a good long time this year. -Liz

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