It Starts With A Seed by Laura Knowles

It Starts With A Seed by Laura Knowles

With lyrical text, enchanting illustrations and a beautiful fold-out scene to complete the story, this award-winning picture book takes you on a journey through the seasons and years as you follow a seed’s transformation from a seedling to a sapling, then a young tree, until it becomes a large tree with its branches and roots filling the page.

As the tree grows, it is joined by well-loved woodland creatures – squirrels and rabbits, butterflies and owls – who make it their home. A rhyming poem builds page on page, echoing the rings of a growing tree. The story culminates with a fold-out page showing a mature tree shedding seeds to continue the beautiful cycle of life. At the back, find the full poem and facts about the specific tree, a sycamore.

Beautiful and evocative, It Starts With a Seed is a factual story that will touch children with its simple, enchanting message of life and growth.
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It Starts with a Seed was the winner of the inaugural Margaret Mallett Award for Children's Non-Fiction.



 

Laura Knowles has degrees in Publishing and Classical Studies. Her love of natural history, words and art have drawn her to work on books about animals and nature.

Jennie Webber is a London-based visual artist and printmaker. Her etchings and drawings celebrate the diversity and complexity of nature, reflecting her incurable curiosity for the world. Themes of conservation underpin all her work; the idea being that if people are amazed by the natural world, then they will be less likely to destroy it.

SKU	Unavailable
ISBN 13	9780711244078
ISBN 10	0711244073
Title	It Starts With A Seed
Author	Laura Knowles
Series	It Starts With A
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Quarto Publishing PLC
Year published	2019-09-03
Number of pages	34
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.