Spring Blossoms (Charlesbridge Publishing, 2013)
Spring is bursting out all over. The sun is out. It’s warm. Let’s go!
Trees, so bare and plain in winter, are dressed up for their yearly show.
The third book in her trees series, Spring Blossoms, follows Leaf Jumpers and Winter Trees in Carole’s exploration in verse of the splendor of trees. Like its predecessors, Blossoms will be illustrated by Leslie Evans whose artistic interpretation of Carole’s words is stupendous. Leslie Evans’ website is www.seadogpress.com
© 2011 by Carole Gerber
Seeds, Bees, Butterflies and More: Nature Poems for Two Voices (Henry Holt Books for Young Readers, 2013)
If seeds, bees and butterflies could talk, what would they say? And what would young readers learn about natural science? Here’s a chat between two seeds from Carole’s new book to be illustrated by Eugene Yelchin. See his paintings and previous books at www.eugeneyelchin.com
We Can Fly
| Wheeee! I fly by helicoptering. |
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I move by parachute. |
I took off from a maple tree
inside my whirling suit. |
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I launched my gentle journey
from a dandelion’s head. |
| I rotate as I travel. |
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I choose to drift instead. |
| Well, I’ve met gliders on my trips. |
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And I’ve watched spinners spin. |
| No matter how seeds fly around . . . |
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| We’re carried by the wind. |
© 2011 by Carole Gerber
Tuck-In Time (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014)
This joyful picture book offers a playful, interactive bedtime routine that ends with a goodnight kiss. Going from head to toes, the reader checks everything out to make sure the child is ready for bed.
I see two little ears that I just have to tweak
and a round little nose. Let me push it-beep, beep!
© 2012 by Carole Gerber
A Band of Babies (HarperCollins Children’s Books, 2015)
What happens when five toddlers with toy drums – following the lead of Baby Benny on the flute – escape their play group and run amok in a grocery store?
Thump-a-thump.
Toot! Toot! Whee!
Babies on a shopping spree!
This rhyming tale of hungry, musical babies takes them up and down the aisles until . . . you’ll have to read it to learn what happens in the end! A Band of Babies will be illustrated by Jane Dyer. To learn more about Jane, who has illustrated more than 50 children’s books, go to www.harpercollins.com
© 2011 by Carole Gerber |
