Ideas Are All Around by Philip C Stead

Ideas Are All Around by Philip C Stead

As an author and his dog, Wednesday, walk through their neighborhood, they look at sunflowers, say hi to Frank, a turtle, who makes quick for the water and disappears, and watch a train rumble by as they walk uphill to a big purple house that belongs to their friend Barbara. Wednesday chases squirrels while the two friends discuss fishing and war and how back before the neighborhood was there enormous woolly mammoths roamed where houses now sit.

Thoughts open up to other thoughts, and ideas are born and carried forward, often transforming into other ideas until he finds that ideas really are all around, you just have to know what to do with them. This title has Common Core connections.

ERIN and PHILIP STEAD are a picture book pair that have won numerous awards. A Sick Day for Amos McGee, which has sold over 400,000 copies, won the Caldecott Award and was designated a New York Times Best Illustrated Book and a Publishers Weekly Best Children's Book. Bear Has a Tale to Tell, an E. Lockhart book, is another popular title. Honor Book for the B White Award. They most recently partnered with Mark Twain on The Purloining of Prince Oleomargarine, a huge New York Times Bestseller that has received widespread media coverage, including features on CBS Sunday Morning and The New Yorker. They reside in the state of Michigan.