Planting a Rainbow (Paperback)

~ (Author) "Every year Mom and I plant a rainbow..." (more)

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

With her characteristically vibrant artwork, Ehlert depicts the planting of a family garden. Ages 3-7.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From School Library Journal

PreSchool-Grade 1 Planting a Rainbow , a companion to Ehlert's Growing Vegetable Soup (HBJ, 1987), is a dazzling celebration of the colorful variety in a flower garden and the cyclical excitement of gardening. A young child relates in ten simple sentences the yearly cycle and process of planning, planting, and picking flowers in a garden. Mother and child plant bulbs in fall, order seeds from catalogs in winter, eagerly anticipate the first shoots of spring, select seedlings in summer, ``and watch the rainbow grow,'' reveling in the opulence of color. The power of this book lies in the glowing brilliance and bold abstraction of the double-page collages. Ehlert combines simple, stylized shapes of flat, high intensity color into abstract yet readily identifiable images of plants and flowers while clearly and colorfully labeling each plant on an adjacent garden marker. Children will especially delight in the six pages of varying width depicting all the flowers of each color of the rainbow. A celebration of the garden, the power of shape and color, and the harmony of text and image in a picture book. Pamela Miller Ness, The Fenn School, Concord, Mass.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

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Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 4-8
  
• Paperback: 40 pages
• Publisher: Voyager Books (February 28, 1992)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0152626107
• ISBN-13: 978-0152626105
• Product Dimensions: 10.6 x 8.3 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #40,395 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Customer Reviews

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23 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Planting A Rainbow, April 8, 2000

By A Customer

My son and I BOTH loved this book. It was both fun to read and informative. The pictures were brilliant with color and seemed to bounce off the page. Every color of the rainbow was represented. After we finished reading the book, my son wanted to plant his own rainbow. It awakened his curiousity.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Clever Book!, November 11, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Planting a Rainbow (Hardcover)

My 3 year old daughter loves this book! We borrowed it from our local library, read it 2-3 times daily, and had great trauma returning it. It has now been a month since it went back and she is still talking about it and has it on her christmas list. She has impressed the neighbors by asking if they had any morning glories or delphiniums and she was eager to help me plant my bulbs and explore all the flowers in our yard. She has always been a flower lover, but this book really stimulated her interest.

5.0 out of 5 stars Great to teach colours and gardening!, July 19, 2009

By	S. Meldrum - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

My son has loved this book since he was 1 year old and is now 2. The pages are bursting with colourful flowers and the text is short on each page. He always stops at the section where all of the colours are grouped by flowers, for example we have red flowers (and there is a page of red flowers) then orange, yellow, green, blue and purple. A great way to teach him about different colours and the process of gardening!