I Am the Seed That Grew the Tree: A Nature Poem For Every Day Of The Year, named after the first line of Judith Nicholls' poem 'Windsong', is a lavishly illustrated collection of 366 nature poems - one for every day of the year, including leap years. Read more I Am The Seed That Grew The Tree: A Nature Poem For Every Day Of The Year is a Big Book Award winner! It is a book for children, all about discovering nature through reading, which creates the learning and growth that leads all of us, children and adults alike, to transformation.

As we move through the book, we follow the changing seasons and disocver an abundance of animals and beautiful scenery. iona Waters is renowned in the world of children’s books for her passion, enthusiasm, and encyclopedic knowledge of children’s literature. Award-winning anthologist Waters has selected a nature poem for every day of the year, spanning over 400 years of poetry. We have enjoyed reading the poems in this book and would recommend for any family of nature loving children BUT it is a huge weighty tomb of a book. The most ambitious poetry book for children ever produced - a nature poem for every day of the year - big in every sense of the word, from the range of poems and poets included, to the dimensions of the book itself - published in collaboration with the National Trust.My friend recommended this to me, it is a very beautifully illustrated book with daily poems that I read to my 9 and 10 year old girls. I Am the Seed That Grew the Tree is a lavishly illustrated collection of 366 nature poems – one for every day of the year. Would be a lovely way to encourage use of poetry on a day to day basis either by reading it to the class or by allowing the children to read the poems themselves. September – Acorn haiku – Kim Wright - This poem could be used as part of a science/geography lesson exploring the local habitat and identification of different types of tree.

Neuware -I Am the Seed That Grew the Tree, named after the first line of Judith Nicholls' poem 'Windsong', is a lavishly illustrated collection of 366 nature poems ¿ one for every day of the year, including leap years. This could link to a practical activity where the children capture and investigate their own shadows. January – The Garden Year – Sara Coleridge - I enjoyed how this poem highlighted each month of the year and the changing seasons.Each poem has its own explicit meaning that can be looked into more deeply and each person getting their own satisfaction from it. It’s the most ambitious book that we’ve ever published at Nosy Crow – and also, we think, the most ambitious poetry collection for children ever published: over three hundred fully-illustrated pages (the equivalent of ten picture books!

They could investigate how seasons can have different characteristics or occur at alternatives times of year compared to England. Winner of the Waterstones Children's Gift of the Year 2018, this lavish poetry collection is a perfect present for any age. The publisher of this collection, Kate Wilson, explains her intention for this book to build upon a collection of poetry she herself had loved as a young person and ‘to make something that was more beautiful and easier to find your way into’ and ‘to make a book that helped you see the world around you’. of poetry, in a beautiful and lavishly-produced hardback edition, and a stunning collection of material, spanning hundreds of years – from sonnets to haikus.contains a really interesting mix of poems from well-known favourites from Christina Rossetti and Walter de la Mare to more modern offerings by Benjamin Zephaniah and Carol Ann Duffy. What I particularly love about it is that each illustration covers a double-page spread, picturing the theme of the poems concerned but without being too prescriptive, so that the reader's imagination can still roam. Driven out of town as a youthful rock’n’roll menace, Dave the ogre has spent his life in exile, peaceably knitting and playing guitar, though troubled by the odd marauding knight. Whether you are 8 or 88, you'll find poems to share at the beginning of the day, or at bedtime, or just to dip into whenever you might like.