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Bibliography: Seasons  Ashley Frederick **__Teacher Resources __**  -Patricia Ryon Quiri’s book, //Seasons,// starts off by simply naming the four seasons and briefly saying what happens during each season. The book continues on explaining why the earth has different seasons. It tells us about the earth orbiting the sun and rotating on its axis. As the book goes along, the seasons winter and summer are explained more in depth. Patricia Quiritalks about what happens during each of these seasons and when they both begin in the northern and southern hemispheres. She shares ome characteristics about the seasons like how the lengths of days are longer during the summer. Then, she talks about spring and autumn. The book explains what happens to trees as the seasons change as well as what certain animals do during the seasons. For example, we learn that the birds fly south for the winter and bears hibernate. At the end of the book, Patricia Quiri talks more about winter and summer. She discusses what people wear during those two seasons and gives some examples of activities that can be done during that time.  -In my future classroom, this book could be used for a number of different subjects. Just to name a few, I could use this book to study seasons, geography, and weather. There are more subjects that could be implemented using this book, but those are the ones I would focus on. In the book, it talks a little bit about the northern and southern hemispheres which would be a great addition to a geography lesson. It would also help children with their directions, north and south, if they had an idea of what is in each of those hemispheres. For weather, the book explains a little bit about how it is cold in the winter and hot in the summer. This could be taken further with pictures of wind and snow that would be cold, as well as pictures of the beach or swimming, which you do when it’s hot. You could then introduce more weather to add on to those including cloudy and rainy.
 * Quiri, Patricia Ryon. 2001. //Seasons.// Compass Point Books. 32 pages. Civic Center Library. **

// -Seasons // is a book that takes us on a journey explaining the four seasons and why we have different seasons. Along this journey, we learn about the changes that occur in the natural world during the four seasons as the earth orbits the sun. This book goes in depth when it comes to temperature explaining things like tropical heat and polar cold. We are taught about the changes in the day’s lengths, equinoxes, and solstices. As the book continues, we read more about nature and the things that occur in nature as the seasons come and go. Morgan finishes up the book by talking about the wet and dry seasons, including monsoons, as well as how different animals adapt during extreme weather changes.  -This book could possibly be used for several different subjects. The ones that came to my mind include seasons, weather, migration, global warming, and geography. For the younger ages, the different types of weather are explained in this book. You could even use this book to teach weather to older children when it comes to the tropical heat and polar cold. For migration, this book explains a little bit about how different animals migrate to different place during particular seasons. Even though this is a children’s book, it could also be used in secondary schools when they are talking about global warming. This book touches on it just enough so it could be used as an introduction. Finally, geographical locations are mentioned within this book when it talks about migrations and weather, which would be great to use with maps.
 * Morgan, Sally. 2012. //Seasons.// Smart Apple Media. 32 pages. Civic Center Library. **

 -With this book, Ron Hirschi takes us on an underwater adventure to explore sea animals and their habitats. When talking about seasons, the oceans do not usually come to mind. //Ocean Seasons// allows us to take a look at creatures under the sea and how they are affected as the seasons change throughout the year. Hirschi explores the plants that live among the sea creatures as well and how the plants change during the seasons too. Within this book, Hirschi also writes about the underwater food chain in a kid friendly way.  -//Ocean Seasons// would be a great addition to any classroom. This book would allow people of any age to learn something because we do not usually learn about how the creatures under the sea are affected by the seasons changing all year long. You could use this book when you are teaching ocean animals, the food chain, and seasons. There are several ocean animals within this book and it tells us about the animal and their habitats. //Ocean Seasons// would be a great introduction to the food chain because it only touches a little bit on the subject, but it is still informational.
 * Hirschi, Ron. 2007. //Ocean Seasons.// Sylvan Dell Publisher. Unpaged. Civic Center Library. **

// -Outside Your Window: a first book of nature //is simply a book full of children’s poetry. Along with pictures, 105 pages are filled with poems about nature and all of its aspects during each of the seasons. The book begins with spring and has poems just about spring telling us about all of the wondrous things you can see outside your window during the season. Davies takes us through each season following spring and makes nature beautiful through her poetry. Today, kids have lost the excitement for nature, but through these poems that remind you of all the little things that matter, we can begin to teach them about the marvelous things that happen in nature during the four seasons. Nicola Davies also does a great job of giving ideas of things kids can do during the four seasons and how they can explore the different things in nature that only come once a year, like fall leaves and snow.  -This book by Nicola Davies is a great resource for all teachers to have in their classrooms. It will assist you in teaching subjects like seasons, plants, animals, and poetry. The poems are separated into the different seasons, so it is easy to find a poem on the specific season you are working on. For the older children, this would be a great start to poetry. Davies uses kid friendly language which would help children understand that poetry does not have to be scholarly. You can make poems out of anything. Davies also uses a haiku-like format, which would assist the children in learning how to write haikus. Some of the poems are free written, or without formation, but they are still wonderful. This book would be a great tool for poetry in every way.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Davies, Nicola. 2012. //Outside Your Window: a first book of nature.// Candlewick Press. 105 pages. Civic Center Library. **

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> -Through a young girl’s perspective, Adoff takes us through each season and familiarizes us with what occurs during the four seasons. Rebecca, the young girl in the story, lives in a rural town with her family. She tells us all the things she sees and does with her family as the year goes by. We learn about the plants that she sees, a storm that happens in spring, the snow in the winter, and many more things. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> -With this book, teachers can learn and teach about the different seasons in this particular location of the little girl. Weather can be explained throughout this book because, as we all know, snow makes the weather cold and a storm probably means it is raining. Also, //In for Winter, Out for Spring// Rebecca talks about her family and the types of things she does with her family. With this, family and traditions can be brought up in class. You can give the students opportunities to talk about their families and what they do together.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Adoff, Arnold. 1990. //In for Winter, Out for Spring.// Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. 42 pages. Civic Center Library. **

**__<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Non-Fiction Books __** //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> -Every Season //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">is a book that goes through each of the four seasons, beginning with spring. For each season, Shelley Rotner explains what happens to the natural world around us. For example, she tells us how the weather changes throughout the seasons. Rotner also adds facts about what people wear during winter and summer, what people eat during the summer, and how the animals and plants react to the seasonal changes. To signify a new season, Shelley Rotner writes, “I love (season)” at the beginning of the season’s “chapter”. On the first page, it says, “I love spring”, which is also on the last page signifying that the seasons reoccur in a repetitive cycle year after year. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> -Since this book talks about how the weather changes during the different seasons, this book could be used to assist teachers in teaching weather. Students will learn about basic hot and cold temperatures as an introduction to different types of weather and temperatures around the world. //Every Season// could also be used when teaching about plants and animals. Students can learn about the habitats in which animals live in, as well as where some of them migrate to during the winter. The book also touches on different plants and trees and how they change during the course of a year.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Rotner, Shelley. 2007. //Every Season.// Roaring Book Press. Unpaged. Civic Center Library **

//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> -Seasons of the Year //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">is a book that takes you through each season, beginning with spring. For each of the four seasons, Jilly Attwood talks about different information like how the weather changes, what types of thing we see in nature, how plants transform during the seasons, and what people are supposed to wear. The book also gives some examples of the types of activities that we can partake in during the year and what types of food are good to eat during the different seasons. For example, fruit is a good thing to eat in the summer. Throughout the book, there are several questions that can be asked of the children to keep them attentive and interested. At the end of the book, there is just one question; can you name the seasons in order? <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> -In my classroom, children can use the book //Seasons of the Year// to learn about the four seasons, weather changes, plants, animals, and healthy eating. They can read the book and learn fun facts about the seasons and be challenged by the questions that are throughout the book. Teachers can also use this book if they are teaching about health food because it touches on the subject of what food we eat during the different seasons, like fruit during the summer. There are also facts about several plants and animals and their changes that occur during each season. For example, it talks about how the leaves change and about animals that migrate during the winter.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Attwood, Jilly. 2005. //Seasons of the Year.// Raintree. 24 pages. Civic Center Library **

//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> -Seasons of the Year //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> by Margaret Hall is a book that simply explains how the seasons change as the earth orbits the sun. Margaret Hall teaches us about what happens in nature as the sun appears in the different locations of the world. Hall finishes her work by explaining that the earth rotates in the same pattern year after year, which causes the seasons to repeat in the same order over and over. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> -//Seasons of the Year// is another great text that can be used in classrooms when teaching many different subjects. For example, since Hall writes about the changes during the seasons in different location, this book can be used when discussing geography. Students will be able to learn about different places around the world and how they differ from other places during each of the seasons. Teachers can also use //Seasons of the Year// while discussing weather and weather patterns during the seasons. Plants are also brought up in this story, which can help children learn about different plants and how they can change in the blink of an eye.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Hall, Margaret. 2007. //Seasons of the Year.// Capstone Press. 24 pages. Civic Center Library. **

//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> -Saguaro Moon: a desert journal //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">is not your typical book about seasons. From the perspective of a young girl who lives in the desert, this book takes us on a tour through the desert teaching us about creatures that are only in the desert, plants you will find, and how the desert changes through the seasons. The book is written in journal entry form to show what is happening in the desert at different times of the year, based on what the young girl observes. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> -Classes with students of all ages would definitely benefit from having this book in their library. Teachers can focus on the different plants and animals that are native to the desert or they can teach about the different desert locations that contain all of the aspects that this book portrays. Since we live in Arizona, this would be a great addition to a lesson about seasons because we do not have the typical four seasons that are known around the world. We have our own seasons that have slight changes in nature, which Pratt-Serafini’s book can help students understand those changes.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Pratt-Serafini, Kristin Joy. 2002. //Saguaro Moon: a desert journal.// Dawn Publications. Unpaged. Civic Center Library. **

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> -In 32 pages, Bobbie Kalman takes us all over the world to show us an array of animals across the planet and how they adapt to //Changing Seasons.// Whether the animals hibernate or migrate or whatever, Bobbie Kalman explains the ways of the animals of the world and how they survive in every season. In this book, Kalman also teaches us about the climate changes that occur around the world during the four different seasons. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> -This book is a great resource for teachers in students when they are learning about animals and geography. Since Kalman talks about animals that live in different areas of the world, teachers could use this book as an opportunity to teach children about different countries and locations. They can also use it as a tool for children to work with maps to find where Kalman is talking about. //Changing Seasons// can be a resource for teachers and students on the subject of animals as well. It introduces children to different animals that they may have not encountered before.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Kalman, Bobbie. 2005. //Changing Seasons.// Crabtree Publications. 32 pages. Civic Center Library. **

**__<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Fiction Books __** //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> -The Little Scarecrow Boy //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">by Margaret Wise Brown is about a little scarecrow who wants to become a fierce scarecrow just like his father. He asks his dad if he is able to go to the crops with him to scare the crows away every morning, but his father always says no. His dad tell him no because he is not fierce enough and he just needs to grow bigger and fiercer. The little scarecrow boy learns all of the faces that are used to scare the crows away, or so he thinks. When he believes he is able to scare the crows, the little boy sneaks out while his parents are sleeping and goes to the crops. A crow flies towards him, so he uses his first “scary” face, but the crow continues to come at him. As the little scarecrow boy uses four more scary faces, he begins to run away because the crow is not afraid of the faces. With one last scary face left, the little scarecrow boy turns to the crow and gives it one last shot. The crow stops and is gone very quickly. The scarecrow boy turned around only to see his dad standing behind him. The father scarecrow is proud of his son for trying to become a fierce scarecrow. When the little scarecrow boy finally grows up, he is known as “the fiercest scarecrow in all the fields in all the world.” <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> -//The Little Scarecrow Boy// is a wonderful picture book that can be used in early education classrooms. Scarecrows are popular around the fall season because that is when farmers used scarecrows to scare away the crows so they did not eat their crops before they could harvest them. Teachers can use this book to talk about harvesting and the types of crops that can be harvested in the fall. This book could also be used to talk about family and growing up. The little scarecrow boy wanted to be just like his dad, but he was still too young and too small. He had to wait until he became old enough and scary enough before he could become a scarecrow like his father, who had been scaring for years before.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Brown, Margaret Wise. 1998. //The Little Scarecrow Boy.// HarperCollins Publishers. 30 pages. Civic Center Library. **

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> -A little hedgehog who lives alone has bad luck when a strong winter storm comes blowing through his home. The wind is so strong, it knocks his nest over and his home shatters to pieces. All he has left is his hat, scarf, and mittens to keep him warm during the storm. He decides that he should travel to his friend Badger’s house and stay there until the storm subsides. On the way to Badger’s home, the little hedgehog runs into a mouse family, an otter, and a couple of deer who are all trying to keep warm because the terrible storm ruined their homes too. As the great friend that he is, the little hedgehog gives up his hat, mittens, and scarf to his friends so they can stay warm. Finally, he makes it to Badger’s where Badger places him in front of the fire to thaw him out. When the storm is over, Badger walks the little hedgehog back to where his nest once was only to find that the friends that the hedgehog was kind to returned the favor by bringing back his hat, mittens, and scarf and built a new home for the kind friend. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> -The topics that could be covered by using this cute book are winter, kindness, and the five senses. The story is all about a cold winter storm that causes all the animals to try to stay warm and the children could use this book to learn about the temperature during the winter. With this book, students can learn about being kind to one other because of hedgehog’s willingness to help his friends stay warm instead of keeping himself warm. The sense of touch could be enhanced with this story because every page that has the hat, mittens, and scarf on it are touch and feel pages. Those three things are made with felt that the children can touch and describe what it feels like.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Butler, M. Christina. 2006. //One Winter’s Day.// Good Books. 24 pages. Civic Center Library. **

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> -Celie, a young African-American girl cannot hold back her excitement when the last of the crops had been harvested. That night would be the All Hallows’ Eve parade that Celie had been preparing for. She wanted to win the prize for best costumes this year, so she made one herself. When she arrived at the parade in her marvelous costume, everyone laughed because it had fallen apart. Celie ran away feeling embarrassed. She was sitting by a stream when she heard a noise behind. She turned to find the infamous fiddler that seems to appear out of nowhere. He held out a bag for Celie to open and told her that what was inside was just for her. Celie opened the bag to find the scariest magical mask that would for sure win the costume contest. She put the mask on and race back to town where her brother and his friend were. The two boys were dressed as wolves, but what Celie saw were two real wolves coming straight at her. She ran away in fear and went back to the stream to the fiddler. She gave the mask back to the fiddler and then her brother and his friend walked out to her. Celie then realized that the mask had made her see that and the fiddler had once again disappeared. Celie did not win the costume contest because nobody knew who was under the scary mask, but she won something more; a tale to tell at the next All Hallows’ Eve. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> -//Celie and the Harvest Fiddler// opens doors into several topics. Some of these topics include harvest, tall tales, family, and traditions. Celie is a young African-American girl whose family does the same thing year after year for the All Hallows’ Eve parade. Celie tells us about the legend of the fiddler who appears out of nowhere, which allows teachers to talk about legends and tall tells that can be passed down from generation to generation.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Flournoy, Vanessa and Valerie. 1995. //Celie and the Harvest Fiddler.// Tambourine Books. 29 pages. Civic Center Library. **

//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> -What comes in Spring? //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">is a story about a young girl who asks her mother questions about what comes in spring and what happens afterwards. The mother answers her child by telling her what happens in nature during the seasons, but she also tells her about how she met her dad in the spring. The mom continues to talk about all four of the seasons and what happens in each. The daughter also learns that her mom and dad got married in the winter, became pregnant in the fall, stayed pregnant all through winter, and had their baby girl in the spring. The little girl learns about the four seasons while learning about how she came into this world and what the stages were of her family through the seasons. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> -This is an absolutely wonderful story because, not only does it talk about what happens in each of the four seasons, but it also talks about family and explains a little bit about how families grow by having children. This is a great book for children to learn about family and that children grow inside their mommies before entering the world into their loving family. \
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Horton, Barbara Savadge. 1992. //What Comes in Spring?// Alfred A. Knopf. 29 pages. Civic Center Library. **

//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> -Red Sings from Treetops //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">is a book that takes us through an entire year of seasons using colors. Joyce Sidman uses her creativity to explain things that happen during the four seasons using colors to describe them. For example, it says, “In summer, white clinks in drinks.” Sidman is alluding to the fact that people put ice in their drinks during the summer to keep them cold. The book starts off with spring and goes through each season. The illustrations match the words Sidman wrote to give the kids a clue as to what she is referring. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> -In my classroom, I could use this book while teaching about the four seasons, but I could also use it when teaching about colors. Every time Sidman wrote the name of a color, it is typed out in that color. For example, green is written in green colored font. This can help the children with their colors as well as learning to read the color names. This book would also be a great resource for older children when they are learning about describing things in their writing instead of just saying what it is. It will give the students some ideas of the kinds of words they could use in their own descriptive writing.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Sidman, Joyce. 2009. //Red Sings from Treetops.// Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. 29 pages. Civic Center Library. **

//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> -Grandmother Winter //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">is a book that takes its idea from Mother Nature. Grandmother Winter sews her blanket of snow and gives it a shake. When the blanket is shaken, it begins to snow all around. When it snows, the book talks about several different animals and how they react to the shaken blanket. We are taught about the animals that hide from the snow, or hibernate. Grandmother Winter’s powerful blanket affects all living creatures around her. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> -//Grandmother Winter// could be used in classrooms around the globe while they are on the subjects of seasons, animals, hibernation, and more. Since the book is called //Mother Winter,// it can pretty much be used only when talking about winter. Teachers can take the book a little further for older children and talk to them about how nature does its own thing. There may not really be a Grandmother Winter, but no man can make the snow fall like a blanket.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Root, Phyllis. 1999. //Grandmother Winter.// Houghton Mifflin Publishers. 29 pages. Civic Center Library. **

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> -Summer is the season that many people choose as their favorite season because of all the fun you can have. Sally and her dog Sam take us on an adventure through a day of their lives in the summer. They tell us some of the things they enjoy doing together in the summer season like planting gardens. Sally and Sam also talk about some of the food they like to eat when it is hot outside like ice cream and cold lemonade. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> -//It’s Summer// gives children of all ages a look into what a typical summer could entail. Of course, not everyone spends their summers the same way, but this book can give us an idea of what most people do. Kids can learn about planting gardens and going swimming in the summer to stay cool. It helps children realize that summer must be hot otherwise people would not want to cool off. This book could also work in the classroom when talking about the five senses because it talks about Sally and Sam tasting ice cream and lemonade. Pickering also writes about the different things that Sally and Sam see and feel throughout their summer experience.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Pickering, Jimmy. 2003. //It’s Summer.// Smallfellow Press.29 pages. Civic Center Library. **

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> -Spring, summer, fall, and winter. These are the four seasons that the Bear Child explores in Anne Rockwell’s book, //First Comes Spring.// The story is a very quick story that takes us through each of the different seasons and shows us what the little bear does and wears for each of them. It also tells us about things that happen during the year like flowers growing in the springtime and leaves falling in the fall. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> -This little story would be a great tool in preschool and kindergarten classes to explain the four seasons and what occurs during each of them. At the end of each explanation of the seasons, there is a picture of the bear’s neighborhood and it asks what all the people are doing during that particular season. This will give the children a chance to see for themselves what is done during the seasons and what people wear. Teachers can also use this book to talk about neighborhoods and the things you can do with your neighbors like go trick-or-treating or build a snowman.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Rockwell, Anne. 1985. //First Comes Spring.// HarperCollins Publishers. 28 pages. Civic Center Library. **

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> -Through the perspective of a little girl, winter is exposed to all readers. The little girl tells of all the things she does during the winter season. She catches snowflakes in her mouth, makes a snowman, and skates on a frozen pond. She also receives a letter from her grandparents whose summer is not full of ice cold snow. They live in Florida where they can lay on the beach under the warm sun. She talks about the animals she sees in nature and how some of them hide in trees or underground to stay warm during the cold season of winter. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> -//It’s Winter// is a fun story about a child who enjoys doing fun activities in the winter. Children can use this book to learn about winter weather and how different kinds of animals and insects are affected by the change in temperature. This book also uses some rhyming words when the little girl is explaining what she does, which can help children learn about words with the same ending sound or poetry. Since the little girls grandparents lived in a place where summer is not the same as hers, teachers can use that to explain how seasons are different no matter where you are in the world. At the end of the book, there is a list of activities that children can try to do during their own winter season.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Glaser, Linda. 2002. //It’s Winter.// The Millbrook Press. 29 pages. Civic Center Library. **

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> -Jimmy Pickering has used his two little friends, Sally and Sam, once again to help children understand the seasons. In this book, he focuses on spring and the changes that are made in nature during this season. For example, he talks about the flowers blooming and animals coming out of hibernation to enjoy the spring season. Sally and Sam are able to play outside again in the nice spring weather and partake in fun activities like flying a kite. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> -//It’s Spring// is a great book for young children to familiarize themselves with the spring season. It uses kid friendly wording so the children are able to understand what happens during the season. Other than talking about the season itself, teachers can also use this book to talk about plants and flowers and how they grow in the spring time because of the warmer weather from the sun.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Pickering, Jimmy. 2003. //It’s Spring.// Smallfellow Press. 29 pages. Civic Center Library. **