Awards

• Winner of NCTE Children's Poetry Award Notable Book 2024 (United States)

Overview

Some flowers are the subject of nursery rhymes and childhood games while others help us celebrate love, remember our homelands or mark the passing seasons. These mindful haiku poems invite us to explore twenty-four flower species growing close to home, from wildflower meadows to urban window boxes. The nature-themed follow up to My Mindful A to Zen, this gorgeous collection of poems teaches us that treating ourselves and our planet mindfully can also be a treat for the senses.

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A bright bouquet of poems, petals, and values. --Kirkus Reviews -- (12/1/2022 12:00:00 AM) Twenty-four mindful haiku about flowers that can be grown or found wild will delight young gardeners and naturalists. . . . The book's overall effect encourages reflection and awareness of nature to benefit health. --Booklist -- (3/1/2023 12:00:00 AM)

A book of haiku / about flowers grows readers / who admire nature. Twenty-four mindful haiku about flowers that can be grown or found wild will delight young gardeners and naturalists. In this nature-themed successor to the creator's My Mindful A to Zen (2021), an assortment of children and adults move through the seasons in settings both urban and rural, admiring such flowers as the daisy and borage through evocative haiku about the blooms. In one cheerful, springtime spread, rain falls on daffodils--'Bright, happy trumpets / call in golden sunshine to / cheer up rainy days'--and bluebells--'Fairy umbrellas / crowded together in a woodland sea of blue.' A range of abilities, skin tones, faiths, and family structures are suggested by the digital artwork, and many of the poetic offerings reflect connections to cultural heritage or ancestral homelands. The book's overall effect encourages reflection and awareness of nature to benefit health, and it concludes with 'Five Ways to Wellbeing' as well as a delightful spread of 'Floral Fun Facts.' --Booklist -- (3/1/2023 12:00:00 AM) Twenty-four haiku / link flowers and mindfulness / in every season! In the same spirit as her My Mindful A to Zen: 26 Wellbeing Haiku for Happy Little Minds (2021), Patel-Sage addresses readers with haiku that only seem to be about flowers: 'Snowdrop, ' for instance--'Pushing up through snow / these delicate flowers are / stronger than they look'--likely refers obliquely to a child using a wheelchair in the accompanying illustration. Similarly, a child poses heroically in front of 'proud and confident' hollyhocks, the value of 'Borage' as a companion plant is reflected in the intimate glance two young gardeners exchange, and cherry blossoms 'gently fall like a / joyful springtime gift' over one child receiving a folded paper crane from another. Along with being racially and culturally diverse, the smiling, wide-eyed cast includes a youngster using a prosthetic limb, an adult couple of ambiguous gender in a Christmas scene, and what appears to be a same-sex couple in a Hindu-style wedding. 'Floral Fun Facts' about some of the selected flowers at the end add light doses of lore and natural science. A bright bouquet of poems, petals, and values. --Kirkus Reviews -- (12/1/2022 12:00:00 AM)

Twenty-four haiku / link flowers and mindfulness / in every season! In the same spirit as her My Mindful A to Zen: 26 Wellbeing Haiku for Happy Little Minds (2021), Patel-Sage addresses readers with haiku that only seem to be about flowers: 'Snowdrop, ' for instance--'Pushing up through snow / these delicate flowers are / stronger than they look'--likely refers obliquely to a child using a wheelchair in the accompanying illustration. Similarly, a child poses heroically in front of 'proud and confident' hollyhocks, the value of 'Borage' as a companion plant is reflected in the intimate glance two young gardeners exchange, and cherry blossoms 'gently fall like a / joyful springtime gift' over one child receiving a folded paper crane from another. Along with being racially and culturally diverse, the smiling, wide-eyed cast includes a youngster using a prosthetic limb, an adult couple of ambiguous gender in a Christmas scene, and what appears to be a same-sex couple in a Hindu-style wedding. 'Floral Fun Facts' about some of the selected flowers at the end add light doses of lore and natural science. A bright bouquet of poems, petals, and values. --Kirkus Reviews -- Journal (12/1/2022 12:00:00 AM)

Author Information

Krina Patel-Sage is an illustrator, author, and designer. During her design career at a children's publishing house, she developed a passion for creating innovative illustrated nonfiction. She is the author-illustrator of My Mindful A to Zen. Krina Patel-Sage is an illustrator, author, and designer. During her design career at a children's publishing house, she developed a passion for creating innovative illustrated nonfiction. She is the author-illustrator of My Mindful A to Zen.

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