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Y De Pronto Es Primavera (2014)

by Julie Fogliano(Favorite Author)

3.91 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

6074009589 (ISBN13: 9786074009583)

languge

English

genre

Poetry

publisher

Oceano

review 1: Parents need to know that And Then It's Spring is a gentle, understated story of a boy who plants seeds and waits for them to grow. It's innocent and profound in its fascination with plant growth, nature's rhythms, and the transformation from winter brown to spring green. Educational valueShows what happens when you plant and nurture seeds and winter turns to spring.Positive messagesPatience is a virtue, and there's a payoff for sowing seeds and taking care of your fledgling plantings. Also, keep hope alive.Positive role modelsThe little boy is dedicated to his task, patient for the outcome, and ever hopeful. At one point, he puts his ear to the dirt and expresses his hope and belief in the seeds' unseen growth, as "the brown, still brown, has a greenish hum that you can... more only hear if you put your ear to the ground and close your eyes."Violence & scarinessNot applicableLanguageNot applicableBooklist starred (December 15, 2011 (Vol. 108, No. 8))Preschool-Grade 2. A first-time author and the Caldecott Award–winning illustrator of A Sick Day for Amos McGee (2011) team up in this beautiful ode to a patient gardener. After the winter, “you have brown, all around you have brown,” but small hints of spring, like red robins and rain, hold promise. A young boy, joined by his dog companion, plants seeds, each labeled with a picture of carrots or sunflowers or peas. But as much as they wait, hope, and examine the dirt with a magnifying glass, there’s no green to be found. Fogliano’s simple, tender text has a solemn tone, which perfectly reflects the anticipatory state of the boy and his animal friends. The woodblock and pencil illustrations give life to animals so expressive and endearing it hurts, and the layout—a mixture of full-bleed spreads and white-bordered vignettes—paces the story well. A two-spread fantasy in the middle of the story—in which the boy imagines birds pecking at the seeds or bears stomping on them—is smile-inducing, particularly a scene of a befuddled bear with a planter on his head. But what’s most fun to notice throughout are the small, subtle details on each page. It’s not easy to wait . . . and wait . . . but children, like the boy, may realize that patience often yields big rewards. HIGH-DEMAND BACKSTORY: Fans of A Sick Day for Amos McGee—and award-watchers, in general—will be eagerly anticipating this, Stead’s first children’s book since winning the 2011 Caldecott Medal.Horn Book (January/February, 2012)A small bespectacled boy and his companions, a dog, a rabbit, and a turtle, are on a search for spring. "First you have brown, / all around you have brown / then there are seeds / and a wish for rain, / and then it rains / and it is still brown, / but a hopeful, very possible sort of brown..." Fogliano's poetic yet grounded narrative is reminiscent of Charlotte Zolotow's picture-book texts in its understatement and straightforward, childlike observations. Her text builds the tension with an expertise of a much more experienced picture book writer, and she gets the pacing exactly right. As for the illustrations, there's no sophomore slump for Stead: her second book is even better than her 2011 Caldecott winner, A Sick Day for Amos McGee (rev. 5/10). The graceful illustrations were created with the same medium (woodblock prints with pencil), but here she's used a completely different palette of browns, grays, light blue, bright green, and touches of red, all set against negative space that most often suggests a cloudy sky. Observant readers will notice many humorous touches: the rabbit eagerly anticipating the first sign of carrots in the garden, the dog waiting for a bone he has planted to grow, a bird sunning itself under the garden label of a sunflower. But the humor never overshadows the mood of quiet anticipation or the thrill that comes at book's end when, all of a sudden, "now you have green, / all around / you have / green." kathleen t. horningHorn Book starred (Fall 2012)A boy and his companions--a dog, rabbit, and turtle--are on a search for spring. The pacing is exactly right in Fogliano's poetic, understated text with straightforward, childlike observations. Stead's graceful illustrations are woodblock prints with pencil in a palette of browns, grays, light blue, bright green, and touches of red, all set against negative space that most often suggests a cloudy sky. Kirkus Reviews starred (January 1, 2012)A boy plants seeds in late winter's brown, barren earth and vigilantly watches for green sprouts alongside his companions (a dog, turtle, rabbit and bird). Rambling narration, elasticized with many ands, thats, commas and a boy's earnest concerns for his seeds, runs on, leaving readers waiting and waiting and waiting--just like the child gardener. The boy's oversized glasses, his tilted, blank face (we never see his eyes) and tiny chin melt hearts instantly. Stead wisely withholds his features, letting Fogliano's babbling stream of small worries and staggeringly sharp imaginings flesh him out. Silly bears might tread on the plantings, unaware of signs that read "please do not stomp here-- / there are seeds / and they are trying." Germinating seeds issue "a greenish hum / that you can only hear / if you put your ear to the ground / and close your eyes." This elaborate inner world and darling voice reverberate in muted wood-block prints and empathetic pencil illustrations as well, its timbre and tone unchanged. Delicate lines run like fine veins, describing animals, trees, plants and fences with intricate and intentional specificity. Sizable, scalloped cloud formations, whose flat panes of white widen double-page horizons, offset both the scrupulous line-work and abundant regions of brown and blue. Their simplicity ventilates these pictures, allowing readers to note amusing secondary animal activities in the dirt. Many treasures lie buried within this endearing story, in which humor and anxious anticipation sprout alongside one another. This sweet seedling will undoubtedly take root and thrive. (Picture book. 3-8)Library Media Connection (August/September 2012)Those drab winter days can seem very long, especially when you're eagerly waiting for spring. This short story highlights a little boy's wait for the tiny seeds he planted to sprout. While he waits, he diligently checks on his seeds and wonders if something could have happened to them. Thankfully, when the fresh green colors of spring appear, so do his seeds. This story will be perfect for classroom projects about nature, seeds, and spring. Detailed full-page illustrations with very few words make it ideal for reading aloud to groups of young children with short attention spans. Brenda Rogers, Educational Reviewer, Kent, Washington. RECOMMENDEDPublishers Weekly (December 19, 2011)Readers of Shaun Tan's The Red Tree will recognize the glum-to-radiant trajectory of Fogliano's soft-spoken debut, subtly illustrated by Caldecott Medalist Stead (A Sick Day for Amos McGee). Unfolding as a single sentence that carries readers from late winter to spring (almost every page opens with an "and," pushing things along), the story focuses on a boy in blank-eyed glasses, who slouches in barren farmland with a dog, a turtle, and other assorted animals and birds. "First you have brown,/ all around you have brown." The boy plants seeds in the packed earth and waits for the plants to grow. Worry and waiting are recurring themes: did birds eat the seeds? what about that trio of bears, seen happily ignoring the boy's "please do not stomp here" sign? Pale blue sky and tawny drabs flood Stead's block-print-and-pencil images, which yield not a sprout until the closing spread, "and now you have green,/ all around you have green." In an understated and intimate partnership, Fogliano and Stead conjure late winter doldrums and the relief of spring's arrival, well worth the wait. Ages 4-7. Illustrator's agent: Emily Van Beek, Folio Literary Management. (Feb.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.School Library Journal (January 1, 2012)PreS-Gr 2-The lowercase letters in the title and the theme immediately bring to mind "in just spring" by e. e. cummings. That association continues while experiencing the book's economy of words and construction as a single, lyrical rumination (one initial capital letter; one concluding period). If that earlier poem celebrates the fullness of the season, this one re-creates the moment before--the faith-hope-doubt-worry stage that a gardener experiences after planting: "First you have brown,/all around you have brown.." A bundled and bespectacled boy, his dog, a rabbit, and a turtle, all sporting red knit hats, survey the barren soil, bare trees, and dried stalks. Stead's warm, finely textured scenes, printed from wood blocks and enhanced with pencil, are imbued with realism and quiet humor. The second-person narrative and immediately recognizable emotions pull readers close, as do the delicate details and nuanced expressions that grace the interplay between the characters and their subtly changing surroundings. Fogliano takes seriously the concerned flights of fancy a child conjures while enduring the interminable progress of a seed: ".maybe it was the bears./because bears can't read signs/that say things like/ 'please do not stomp here-/there are seeds/and they are trying..'" Children will intuitively relate to both the agony of anticipation and the effort of growing. This seemingly real-time experience of getting to green is a droll, wistful ode to the stamina behind wanting, will, and perseverance.-Wendy Lukehart, Washington DC Public Library (c) Copyright 2012. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
review 2: Growing plants from seeds may be a new concept for many children. The Growing Table is a children’s non-fiction picture book that introduces kids to agricultural concepts. It’s an introduction to knowing what’s involved in growing a garden. Briggs the author, tells the true story of Will Allen’s passion was so great he taught people to grow food all over the world. Allen says “We need 50 million more people growing food on porches, in pots, in side yards...” The child in And Then it’s Spring anxiously awaited spring and suggests These stories share teaching kindergarten through 3rd grade children about gardening. you can hear it coming “if you put your ear to the ground and close your eyes”. Both characters love growing food, the books are educational and a great introduction into the science of agriculture.With these books, I’d use a knowledge chart to activate prior knowledge, set goals, and determine what they’ve learned from reading. less

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tientran

After winter, boy want to make brown land become green, so he and his dog dug, seeded, and waiting them grow up. The boy worry about some things may hurt his seed, but at the end, green cover the land. Most children have some thing they want to try as same as the boy, but not every child have same bravery with this boy. The boy also have some fear and worry, but he try to do it and success finally. We can use this story to encourage children to try new things and tell them they will get benefits from their trying. Let children write what they want to try, and give them a period of time to try it. Then, children can report their experiences and achievements.

car

This is a hopeful story of Spring with full-bleed wood block and pencil illustrations and cutout vignettes. I love the simplicity of the boy and dog looking down after planting the seed, and then up to the sky in hopeful search of rain clouds. It is poignant, and has a good message of care and patience. The characters, animal and boy, are not overdone. This would be great for prediction skills, and making inferences. Include this book in a Spring or planting unit. Wouldn't it be great if every student had something planted and had to wait, just like the boy in the story!

laura

Charming. And I love the little details, like the turtle wearing a teeny hat.

krezubica

Another one of my favorite kids' books I've read with my children this year.

syeda

Lovely illustrations. Quiet story.

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