Awards

• Children's Book Committee at Bank Street College Best Children's Book of the Year
• NCTE Notable Children's Book in the Language Arts

Overview

On a gold-blooming, bee-zooming, sun-dazzling day . . . / Snakes glide. / Spiders hide. / Crickets chirp. / Butterflies slurp. From Buffy Silverman, author of On a Snow-Melting Day, comes an exciting companion book. As autumn begins, plants and animals in nature begin to change in all kinds of ways to prepare for winter. Brilliant photos and rhyming text work together in this engaging read-aloud to highlight these changes, and back matter offers more information about each creature and change featured.

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A good read-aloud choice for preschool and early primary classes noting seasonal touchstones. --Booklist -- (9/15/2022 12:00:00 AM) Sun-dazzling! --Kirkus Reviews -- (6/1/2022 12:00:00 AM)

Colorful photographs and short, rhyming phrases extol the glories of autumn in the Northeastern and Midwestern sections of the United States. 'On a gold-blooming, / bee-zooming, / sun-dazzling day . . .' Each of those phrases is in a bold white font against a different vibrant photograph of, for instance, goldenrod, a bee on a purple coneflower, and an autumn landscape bright with red and orange maple leaves. These are followed by more eye-catching photographs accompanied by pairs of rhyming, two-word, noun-verb combinations ('Crickets chirp. / Butterflies slurp'). The clever poetry pattern repeats several times, with the final page--still in two words--summing up the many parts. Excellent backmatter elaborates--in sequential order--on the various phrases, adding rudimentary scientific explanations of, for example, fall animal behaviors, photosynthesis, thunderstorms, and why breezes chill a human being's skin. The book offers older students the opportunity to learn about word usage and try their hand at writing poetry that uses the text's format. People appear in two photographs--in the first, a dark-haired, light-skinned family of four revels in apple-picking; in the second, which includes the poem's penultimate line, a brown-skinned child hugs a dog in the midst of a pile of fallen leaves. (This book was reviewed digitally.) Sun-dazzling!--Kirkus Reviews -- Journal (6/1/2022 12:00:00 AM)

'On a gold-blooming, bee-zooming, sun-dazzling day . . . Snakes glide. Spiders hide. Crickets chirp. Butterflies slurp. Fluff lifts. Seed drifts.' Silverman's lyrical ode to autumn, following On a Snow-Melting Day (2020), emphasizes the sights and sounds found in nature: honking geese, ripe apples, drilling woodpeckers, chill breezes, and more. The rhyming text reads smoothly and makes use of invented language (including a 'leaf-lunching' moose). Stunning, crisp-edged full-color photographs depict goldenrod, green snakes, white milkweed fluff, tan fawns, red sumac, and a mottled frog atop a red-and-yellow maple leaf. Photos are aptly chosen, and all (except the apple-picking shot) exclude humans. Back matter offers additional facts about each of the objects or creatures depicted (golden crab spiders employ camouflage, for example, enabling them to go undetected by predators); a glossary and further-reading list are also included. This makes a good read-aloud choice for preschool and early primary classes noting seasonal touchstones. Pair with April Pulley Sayre's Full of Fall (2017).--Booklist -- Journal (9/15/2022 12:00:00 AM) Colorful photographs and short, rhyming phrases extol the glories of autumn in the Northeastern and Midwestern sections of the United States. 'On a gold-blooming, / bee-zooming, / sun-dazzling day . . .' Each of those phrases is in a bold white font against a different vibrant photograph of, for instance, goldenrod, a bee on a purple coneflower, and an autumn landscape bright with red and orange maple leaves. These are followed by more eye-catching photographs accompanied by pairs of rhyming, two-word, noun-verb combinations ('Crickets chirp. / Butterflies slurp'). The clever poetry pattern repeats several times, with the final page--still in two words--summing up the many parts. Excellent backmatter elaborates--in sequential order--on the various phrases, adding rudimentary scientific explanations of, for example, fall animal behaviors, photosynthesis, thunderstorms, and why breezes chill a human being's skin. The book offers older students the opportunity to learn about word usage and try their hand at writing poetry that uses the text's format. People appear in two photographs--in the first, a dark-haired, light-skinned family of four revels in apple-picking; in the second, which includes the poem's penultimate line, a brown-skinned child hugs a dog in the midst of a pile of fallen leaves. (This book was reviewed digitally.) Sun-dazzling!--Kirkus Reviews -- Journal (6/1/2022 12:00:00 AM)

'On a gold-blooming, bee-zooming, sun-dazzling day . . . Snakes glide. Spiders hide. Crickets chirp. Butterflies slurp. Fluff lifts. Seed drifts.' Silverman's lyrical ode to autumn, following On a Snow-Melting Day (2020), emphasizes the sights and sounds found in nature: honking geese, ripe apples, drilling woodpeckers, chill breezes, and more. The rhyming text reads smoothly and makes use of invented language (including a 'leaf-lunching' moose). Stunning, crisp-edged full-color photographs depict goldenrod, green snakes, white milkweed fluff, tan fawns, red sumac, and a mottled frog atop a red-and-yellow maple leaf. Photos are aptly chosen, and all (except the apple-picking shot) exclude humans. Back matter offers additional facts about each of the objects or creatures depicted (golden crab spiders employ camouflage, for example, enabling them to go undetected by predators); a glossary and further-reading list are also included. This makes a good read-aloud choice for preschool and early primary classes noting seasonal touchstones. Pair with April Pulley Sayre's Full of Fall (2017). --Booklist -- (9/15/2022 12:00:00 AM) Colorful photographs and short, rhyming phrases extol the glories of autumn in the Northeastern and Midwestern sections of the United States. 'On a gold-blooming, / bee-zooming, / sun-dazzling day . . .' Each of those phrases is in a bold white font against a different vibrant photograph of, for instance, goldenrod, a bee on a purple coneflower, and an autumn landscape bright with red and orange maple leaves. These are followed by more eye-catching photographs accompanied by pairs of rhyming, two-word, noun-verb combinations ('Crickets chirp. / Butterflies slurp'). The clever poetry pattern repeats several times, with the final page--still in two words--summing up the many parts. Excellent backmatter elaborates--in sequential order--on the various phrases, adding rudimentary scientific explanations of, for example, fall animal behaviors, photosynthesis, thunderstorms, and why breezes chill a human being's skin. The book offers older students the opportunity to learn about word usage and try their hand at writing poetry that uses the text's format. People appear in two photographs--in the first, a dark-haired, light-skinned family of four revels in apple-picking; in the second, which includes the poem's penultimate line, a brown-skinned child hugs a dog in the midst of a pile of fallen leaves. (This book was reviewed digitally.) Sun-dazzling! --Kirkus Reviews -- (6/1/2022 12:00:00 AM) Revel in the beauty of the fall season with this lyrical picture book for young children. On a gold-blooming day, readers are invited to look at a bee sipping nectar from a flower, watch the sun through branches on a tree, and see a snake glide, a spider hide, cricket chirp, and a butterfly slurp. Silky milkweed seeds drift from a seed pod and squirrels crunch nuts. A moose munches a leaf, raindrops fall, and mushrooms pop up out of the ground. Readers can witness other fall wonders such as fawns grazing, cattails swaying, and a family apple-picking. Pumpkins, leaf piles, and a breezy chill all signal the season of fall in all its glory. Each phrase is accompanied by photographs that truly capture the season. This is a wonderful book to celebrate the season of fall and to identify new vocabulary words for young readers. A beautiful book that can be read almost like a poem or a song and should be on every bookshelf leading up to and during the season of fall! Reviewer Rating 5 -Children's Literature -- (11/29/2022 12:00:00 AM)

Author Information

Buffy Silverman is the author of more than 90 nonfiction books for children, featuring topics from alligators to video games. Look for her nature-inspired poetry in anthologies and children's magazines, and visit her at www.buffysilverman.com.

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