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Planting a rainbow / written and illustrated by Lois Ehlert.
A mother and child plant a rainbow of flowers in the family garden.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780152626105 (pbk.)
- ISBN: 015204633X
- ISBN: 9780152046330
- ISBN: 9780152626105 (pbk., HMH Books for Young Readers, 1992)
- Physical Description: 22 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 23 x 29 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: San Diego : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, [1988]
- Copyright: ©1988
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| Subject: | Gardening > Juvenile fiction. Flowers > Juvenile fiction. Mother and child > Juvenile fiction. |
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- 0 of 1 copy available at Rossland Public Library.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rossland Public Library | BB EHL (Text) | 35162000136041 | Board Books | Volume hold | Checked out | 2024-06-06 |
- Horn Book Guide Reviews : Horn Book Guide Reviews 2008 Fall
Ehlert's gorgeous picture book is here reissued as a lap-size board book. A child narrator discusses the garden planted with Mom each year. When their plants bloom, the narrator describes the many colors in the garden. This volume is about the same size as the original picture book, and the art remains as bold and attractive. Copyright 2008 Horn Book Guide Reviews. - Publishers Weekly Reviews : PW Reviews 1992 January #2
Ehlert's characteristically vibrant style is perfectly suited to this gardening primer. Ages 3-7. (Feb.) Copyright 1992 Cahners Business Information. - Publishers Weekly Reviews : PW Reviews 1992 February #1
With her characteristically vibrant artwork, Ehlert depicts the planting of a family garden. Ages 3-7. (Feb.) Copyright 1992 Cahners Business Information. - Publishers Weekly Reviews : PW Reviews 1988 March #2
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. (March) Copyright 1988 Cahners Business Information. - Publishers Weekly Reviews : PW Reviews 2003 April #1
In a companion to Growing Vegetable Soup, Lois Ehlert's signature stylized shapes and flat, bright colors bring forth a bountiful garden in Planting a Rainbow. Die-cut pages featuring one color per spread play up this celebration of seeds sprouting into an array of blossoms that boast the colors of the rainbow. Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information. - School Library Journal Reviews : SLJ Reviews 1988 May
PreS-Gr 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 Cahners Business Information.
