I've been looking forward to spring, so when this book was suggested to me, and I saw the the kittens on the cover, I couldn't resist requesting and reading it.

It was a sweet and interesting kid's book about spring time coming. .

I was surprised, when I checked the publication date, that it was published in 2016. I would have thought it was much older. It has an older feel to it, with the design, wording and illustrations. But I enjoyed it.

From Amazon:
"Watch the world transform when spring comes! In a starred review, School Library Journal called this delightful picture book “A must-have, joyful seasonal title for the youngest listeners.”

In this beautiful book for young children, Caldecott Medalist and Newbery Honor author Kevin Henkes uses striking imagery, repetition, and alliteration to introduce basic concepts of language and the changing of the seasons. And acclaimed artist Laura Dronzek’s gorgeous, lush paintings show the transformation from quiet, cold winter to the newborn spring.

Before spring comes, the trees are dark sticks, the grass is brown, and the ground is covered in snow. But if you wait, leaves unfurl and flowers blossom, the grass turns green, and the mounds of snow shrink and shrink. Spring brings baby birds, sprouting seeds, rain and mud, and puddles. You can feel it and smell it and hear it—and you can read it!

In a starred review, The Horn Book said, “This joyful reflection is as welcome as spotting the first brave crocus.”

In the Middle of Fall, Winter Is Here, When Spring Comes, and Summer Song make for a beautiful quartet of seasonal-theme picture books to share at home or in the classroom. Ideal for introducing the season, for story time, and for bedtime reading."

Kids, people who read to kids, and people who are kids at heart.

I liked a lot of the illustrations and especially liked the pages on eggs and seeds growing, kittens and the pages with flowers and bees.

The part that seems a bit complaining about the amount of rain that happens in spring, though they redeem themselves with mentioning all the good that comes from the rain.

Be in springtime Though every season has its beauty.

Like it was a book from my childhood, only I don't remember ever having read (or had read to me) one about spring coming.

"Kevin Henkes

Kevin Henkes is the author and illustrator of close to fifty critically acclaimed and award-winning picture books, beginning readers, and novels. He received the Caldecott Medal for Kitten’s First Full Moon in 2005. Kevin Henkes is also the creator of a number of picture books featuring his mouse characters, including the #1 New York Times bestsellers Lilly’s Big Day and Wemberly Worried, the Caldecott Honor Book Owen, and the beloved Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse. His most recent mouse character, Penny, was introduced in Penny and Her Song (2012); her story continued in Penny and Her Doll and Penny and Her Marble (a Geisel Honor Book). Bruce Handy, in a New York Times Book Review piece about A Good Day, wrote, “It should be said: Kevin Henkes is a genius.” Kevin Henkes received two Newbery Honors for novels—one for his newest novel for young readers, The Year of Billy Miller, and the other for Olive’s Ocean. Also among his fiction for older readers are the novels Junonia, Bird Lake Moon, The Birthday Room, and Sun & Spoon. He lives with his family in Madison, Wisconsin. You can visit him online at www.kevinhenkes.com." From Amazon

It was cute and a nice reminder of many of the lovely things about spring coming.

My library has the paper version of this book, so maybe yours does too. It doesn't appear to be available in electronic form.

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