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The award-winning creator of Hello Twins offers a joyous celebration of nature as it springs to life.
Come into the woods, where the green leaves grow around and around and where, high in the branches, a nest is full of cheeping birds. With radiant, expressive artwork, Charlotte Voake captures the essence of a forest as it comes alive in the spring, illustrating a simple text based on the traditional song "The Green Grass Grew All Around." Includes a musical score to inspire musicians of all ages.
Author Notes
Charlotte Voake is an author and illustrator of children's books.
Voake received the 1997 Picture Book Blue Ribbon from the Bulletin Center for Children's Books for Ginger, a book about a cat's dislike towards the new kitten addition to the family. She has also written Mr. Davies and the Baby and Elsie Piddock Skips in Her Sleep.
(Bowker Author Biography)
Reviews (2)
School Library Journal Review
PreS-Gr 2-Voake reveals the dainty signs of spring in watercolor and ink illustrations that accompany the traditional folk song, "The Green Grass Grew All Around." Alert squirrels watch a straw-hatted girl with a younger boy and a black cat as they stroll around and picnic under "the finest tree you ever did see." While this crew interacts, a spotty-breasted mother bird hatches, then feeds her offspring. The song's music and lyrics fill the end pages. Voake's light touch and array of green shades convey the very breezes of the day, where just stretching one's arms to mimic tree branches brings on a smile. Prepare, also, to be enchanted by three blue eggs with white dots that become a trio of singers who wrap up the tale with a final "Tweedle-Dee-Dee!" The large spreads will ensure successful storytime sharing, even if you're not a singer.-Gay Lynn Van Vleck, Henrico County Library, Glen Allen, VA (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Publisher's Weekly Review
Pages washed with pale green and covered with squiggly line drawings and watercolors instantly identify this book, an interpretation of the traditional English folk song "The Green Leaves Grew Around," as the work of veteran illustrator Voake (Hello Twins). The minimal textinvites a read-aloud--and even before arriving at the musical score on the final spread, readers are likely to find themselves singing. The language is circular: the chorus "and the green leaves grew around, around, around, and the green leaves grew around" returns on every other page, until the pattern is interrupted by a triumphant "Tweedle-Dee-Dee!" from a just-hatched bird. The rhythm echoes the visual one of the pages--in subdued hues of green, brown, gold and peach--that is suddenly disrupted by a colorful blast of three turquoise robin's eggs. Adding interest to the enormous tree and its many leaves that dominate the art, a girl and boy enjoy a picnic, then play with forest creatures. Their presence and activity offer a secondary plot that should help retain the audience's interest. Ages 3-5. (May) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved