Combining a diverse selection of classic quotations and forty-eight
poems, twelve for each of the four seasons, with the energetic and
colorful paintings of a Caldecott Medal winning illustratror, this is
the definitive collection of poems about the seasons for children and
adults. Spring births a polliwog that becomes a "full frog"; in summer,
wildflowers choreograph an extravaganza; autumn's apples are found in
generations of people's pockets; and winter's snowfall makes inanimate
objects more beautiful than we could ever imagine. In addition to master
poets Carl Sandburg, Richard Brautigan, Joseph Bruhac, and Karla Kuskin,
twnety-nine of the poems have been especially commissioned by a host of
contemporary poets such as Rebecca Kai Dotlich, Joan Bransfield Graham,
J. Patrick Lewis, and Marilyn Singer.
The exciting, bold palette of Caldecott Medallist David Diaz brings the
seasons to life and asks us to look at the seasons all over again, for
the first time.