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3.92 AVERAGE
3.92 AVERAGE
Celebrate the seasons with this book - great conversation about available material which could lead into habitats.
“Every season has its own secret-dreaming, cozy-keeping, hush-listening, fort-building time.”
A darling, delightfully fanciful look at the fours seasons and the fun kids can have together during them! The fort concept was well-executed and the diverse cast and their varied interests made this book a winner. I've read it with my one year old several times and he loves the bright colors and the detailed art.
Fort building in every season with kids of all sorts inspired my preschool storytime folks to imagine and plan the forts they plan to build when they get home. Whimsical illustrations and lyrical prose make this a favorite!
Celebrate the seasons through play in this picture book that has different forts built by kids throughout the year. Winter starts the book with an ice and snow fort made merry with pine boughs for seating, berries and branches for decorations. Spring has a quiet fort filled with books to read, a cozy blanket hung between trees. Summer takes the fort to the beach with driftwood, towels, starfish and snacks. The fall fort is up in the changing trees with leaves falling all around. But sometimes forts go awry too! The only solution is a bigger, better fort next time. The text of this picture book is poetic and celebratory of each of the seasons with each season clearly depicted and then the fort shown in the illustrations. The images are filled with diverse children playing together. The fine-lined images are a mix of watercolor, colored pencil and digital that create a rich, warm setting. Have plenty of blankets, boxes and pillows around because little listeners will want to immediately build their own forts. Appropriate for ages 3-5.
Wagner-Lloyd and Halpin celebrate the seasons, the adventures and fun that can be shared outdoors with friends whilst building forts. There is little more depth to the story than that, but I can definitely see some potential for developing vocabulary surrounding seasons and the illustrations evoke an excellent sense of time and place. Nice note of inclusivity too.