Customer Reviews

A Field of Sunflowers (Read with Me Cartwheel Books (Scholastic Paperback))

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This book was a great book which showed the reader beautiful photographs of how to plant sunflowers. I would like to grow some sunflowers next year and make a sunflower house just like they did in the story. I especially liked the photo which showed the artists who came to paint the field of sunflowers, then toward the end of the story the farmer invited his friends and neighbors over to have a dinner party on the lawn under the oak tree next to the field of sunflowers. This was a beautiful book which certainly inspired the reader to become interested in sunflowers if he wasn't already.

This is no ordinary Scholastic book. Neil Johnson has created, with almost thirty photographs and a generous serving of agricultural and botanical terms (in boldface), a compassionate tribute to the sunflower, which despite its relatively short life cycle, provides lasting benefits to people as well as animals. I believe the farmer profiled in the book, and indeed its dedicatee, is Gordon Boogaerts of Gilliam, Louisiana.

Docking one star for the less than optimal photo reproduction. I know this is an inexpensive Scholastic (Cartwheel) title that retailed for three dollars, but the content really deserved better. Contrast and brightness need to be adjusted, or perhaps the issue is cheap paper/ink; in any case, portions of many photos are in shadow.