Bear doesn’t understand and worries about the leaves, as even more fall over his island, Stein giving an entire wordless spread to the newly-emerging Fall while the bear watches.
"Everything was going well until the first leaf fell." (This is a spare text: That "Everything" gets its own, entire page, and there’s a line break there after "was going well"). hang on the pages like paintings-more intimate, somehow, than double-page spreads").Īnd there, on that first spread, is bear, simply taking in the wonder of a butterfly. In this first spread, we see two of Stein’s watercolor images bordered in a loose, relaxed black line (created with bamboo pen), as most of the images in the book are presented ( Publishers Weekly wrote further, and I love this: "the joyously colored panels. Here are some activities and visuals to support comprehension. "It was his first year," the book opens, the only text on our first double-page spread, showing us a bear on his little island of the forest with its dominant grassy greens and browns and a bit of yellow from the sun. Leaves by David Ezra Stein Leaves is a delightful book about an adorable young bear learning about the seasons of fall, winter and spring. This is a lovely little poem of a picture book (or, as the Publishers Weekly review put it in their starred review, more like a "haiku-like shape," praising Stein for his willingness to let the story assume that form) all about the wonder of the ever-changing seasons and nature as viewed by an innocent, rather new-to-this-world bear. Today’s review of another picture book comes from Jules of Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast.
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