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Lois Ehlert

Planting a Rainbow Kindle Edition

by Lois Ehlert (Author, Illustrator) Format: Kindle Edition

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In this perennial classic by Caldecott Honor–winning author Lois Ehlert, little ones learn the colors of the rainbow as they watch a plants grow in a beautifully vibrant garden.

Through brilliant, textured cut paper collages, the story follows the progress of a mother and daughter in their backyard as they plant bulbs, seeds, and seedlings and nurture their growth into flowers. Bold, spare text and dazzling illustrations will inspire readers to take a closer look at the natural world and maybe even start a garden of their own.

Celebrate Earth Day, spring, and the basics of gardening while improving color recognition with Lois Ehlert's Planting a Rainbow!

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1 - 4 years, from customers
Print length

40 pages
Language

English
Grade level

Preschool and up
Lexile measure

310L
Publisher

Clarion Books
Publication date

December 10, 2013
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ISBN-13

978-0152626105
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About the Author

LOIS EHLERT is the creator of many award-winning picture books about nature, including Growing Vegetable Soup; Red Leaf, Yellow Leaf; the recent bestseller Waiting for Wings; and In My World. She lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
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"A splendid beginning book of colors and flowers cleverly arranged for young readers."--The Horn Book

"Young readers will love watching the garden grow."--San Francisco Chronicle

"A dazzling celebration . . . of the garden, the power of shape and color, and the harmony of text and image."--School Library Journal
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Book Description

Previous board book edition 2003
978-0-15-204366-0
0-15-204633-X
Hardcover edition 1988
978-0-15-262609-9
0-15-262609-3 --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

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LOIS EHLERT has created many celebrated picture books inspired by the world around her. She lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

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 an alternate kindle_edition edition.

From Publishers Weekly

Every fall "Mom and I plant a rainbow," by carefully placing bulbs in the gardenstiger lilies, yellow daffodils, blue hyacinth and purple iris, among others. And every winter they order seeds from catalogues for zinnias, daisies, marigolds and much more. The bulbs sprout in spring; seedlings are set out. Come summer, it's time to harvest the rainbow-colored crop. Despite a die-cut insert that relates the colors of the spectrum, this new title lacks the fresh approach to the natural cycle of planting, growth and reaping of Ehlert's Growing Vegetable Soup. While still welcome for its bursts of color and well-documented labeling of flowers, this book cannot add to the concept of gardening, precisely because its predecessor was so comprehensive. Ages 3-8.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

Product details

ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00B0SCESC
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Clarion Books; First edition (December 10, 2013)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ December 10, 2013
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 4175 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
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Print length ‏ : ‎ 40 pages

Best Sellers Rank: #158,766 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #6 in Children's Gardening Books (Kindle Store)
- #30 in Children's Environment Books (Kindle Store)
- #50 in Children's Gardening Books (Books)

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LOIS EHLERT has created many picture books, including Leaf Man, Pie in the Sky, In My World, Growing Vegetable Soup, Planting a Rainbow, and the bestselling Waiting for Wings. She lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

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Lucy

Cute for Little Ones

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 17, 2023

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This Planting a Rainbow board book is a smaller and sturdier version of the popular story by Lois Ehlert. It is perfect for tinier hands to hold yet still has all the charm of the original. The colors are gorgeous and very much able to encourage young ones to want to grow plants on their own someday. This is a beautiful first book.

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Maria Larson

Beautiful introduction to gardening.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 4, 2022

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I have always loved the graphic quality of Lois Ehlert's picture books. I bought Planting a Rainbow, along with the same author's Growing Vegetable Soup for my friend's 6-month -old granddaughter. I am sure she will enjoy them for the pictures at first, and later as an introduction to gardening.
My only objection is that the books are smaller than indicated in the description. I would have preferred the larger format.

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EA

Loved this book

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 20, 2022

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My great grand daughter loved getting this book.
Her mom bought it as a gift for someone else. My gg-daughter loved it so much I bought her one.

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it is beautiful and just the colors alone would make for a ...

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 1, 2018

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this will be a gift for my grandson when he turns one this august. with it, he will receive some bulbs and a bulb planter that i suspect his father (my son) will use to "help" plant the bulbs in their new backyard. i wanted to give the gift of nature and earth and dirt and memory, and this book does all of that. it is beautiful and just the colors alone would make for a great book to enjoy over and over. but the book is informative enough to entice everyone into wanting to plant seeds and bulbs and then wait for the colors to grow. each year i will give a few more bulbs at his birthday so he can plant more flowers and then wait through our long winter to watch for the blooms to appear. this is the perfect book!

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Janice M.

Pages were stuck together

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 26, 2022

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Would have been a lovely book but some of the pages were stuck together - tore when trying to open. Very disappointing

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Victor the Reader

Planting A Rainbow (My Kindle Review)

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 20, 2021

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Today’s the first day of Spring, so this book was a perfect way to celebrate it. We see a beautiful garden, planted by a girl and her mom, slowly grow from the Fall to into Spring with many kinds of colorful plants. Simple put, a nice simple story with the colorful art that makes this garden a beautiful rainbow. <b>A (100%/Outstanding)</b>

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Joyce Richardson

3yr old granddaughter loved the colors and flowers

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 27, 2022

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3yr old granddaughter loved the colors and flowers

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Claire A.

Cute story for 3+ year olds

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 17, 2020

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Great book, but not for younger (2ish) kids. Uses scientific names for flowers - that's a plus, but it makes it tedious for Littles, so I end up skipping a lot of words for my 2 year old to stay interested. We have the "Eating The Alphabet" book by the same author and my baby girl loves it. I think she'll grow to like it more, and I could see an older child enjoying the bigger words to say.

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Roberta Sayuri

Planting a rainbow

Reviewed in Brazil 🇧🇷 on June 26, 2023

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Excelente produto ! Muito educativo pra ensinar em inglês as cores pro seu filho

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caylyn myers

Soft cover with it came in hardcover

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on August 30, 2018

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Of course the description of this book is that its a soft cover. I jusr really wish it came as a hard cover/board book. Love the story and photos.

東京Radyママ

花の名前はちょっと難しい

Reviewed in Japan 🇯🇵 on May 19, 2021

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届くまで、1ヶ月以上かかりました。
絵本はかなりきれいとなんとなく分かりやすい。子どもに花の名前はちょっと難しい〜

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Carolina Gutierrez

Chegou certinho. O livro é bem pequeno

Reviewed in Brazil 🇧🇷 on January 30, 2023

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O livlvro tem bastante quakidade

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R. Gray

Colourful, fun read.

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on October 14, 2019

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Lots of fun to read and my 3 year old granddaughter loves the colourful images of flowers.

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