Seasons

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Seasons

A Year in Nature

Hannah Pang and Clover Robin

(Little Tiger Press)

Bookwagon loves the seasonal books of Sean Taylor and Alex Morss, which go into great depth about the changes in a year. However, Seasons approaches this subject differently. Therein, we have a paper cut story of the changes in six different settings.

Thereafter, we begin with the might European oak, and see how it changes. Furthermore, we read of the life that depends upon this tree and see how lives within it change too. For example, did you know that ‘the bumblebee queen is the only bumblebee that will survive the winter’? Then again, it seems bats will hibernate in ‘old woodpecker holes’ throughout winter?

However, we’ve Alaska to explore also, where there is more light in summer than winter. At that time, the migrating red salmon are an eagerly awaited feast for grey wolves and brown bears! Then again, bears must fill up on pine nuts and berries ahead of their winter hibernation. It seems  life in the Northern Polar regions is tough. We know this through An Arctic Story: The Animals of the Frozen North. However, we’ve a snapshot through the seasons, with the return of the summer snow geese, for example. Then again, we see dazzling Northern Lights in winter and Narwhals beneath the ice.

China’s Yellow Dragon Valley, Kenya’s Maasai Mara Valley and the Northern Australian mangrove forests complete our tour. At each stage the layered pictures demonstrate the changes and differences. Altogether, this is a beautiful book, one for lingering over, sharing and learning from.