Customer Reviews

This Is the Sunflower

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A wonderful read-aloud book for Pre-school through grade 2. Children love the rhyming repetitive verse and with the bold, beautiful illustrations by Donald Crews it will keep an entire classroom's attention. Very good book for a science unit on seeds. It's hard to find fun things to compliment a lesson on seeds, but this book fills that gap. Every elementary school library should have this book in their collection.

My daughter and I both enjoy this book very much. I have been reading it to her since she was 3 years old, and we still enjoy it just as much as the first time we read it. Many nights we end up singing the story. She also enjoys looking at the different birds at the back of the book. She will make me tell her all their names, and She picks out her favorite, which is different every time. I highly recommend this book to anyone with children.

Very well-written book that covers the life cycle of a plant. The repetition is helpful for children (though a tad monotonous for the reader if it's been a long day already). It tells a valuable lesson, too: When the sunflower dies the book takes on somber tone, but then the reader sees all the beautiful new sunflowers that came from the seeds of the previous one. This lesson could be interpreted in so many different ways -- all of them lovely.