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A review by jwinchell
Swirl by Swirl: Spirals in Nature by Joyce Sidman
5.0
This is on the 2014 Monarch list.
I love Beth Krommes' art (The House in the Night), and so I found this book to be absolutely gorgeous. It's amazing that this is a great read-aloud and also a great piece of non-fiction; that's no easy feat. I had profound realizations about the power of the spiral in my readings of this; it caused me to look at that form of nature in a whole new way.
I can imagine many cool potential connections to art, math, & science with this one--Fibonacci numbers, the golden mean, all of the ways spirals occur in nature.
I love Beth Krommes' art (The House in the Night), and so I found this book to be absolutely gorgeous. It's amazing that this is a great read-aloud and also a great piece of non-fiction; that's no easy feat. I had profound realizations about the power of the spiral in my readings of this; it caused me to look at that form of nature in a whole new way.
I can imagine many cool potential connections to art, math, & science with this one--Fibonacci numbers, the golden mean, all of the ways spirals occur in nature.