Full of Fall
by April Pulley Sayre
Beach Lane Books (Simon & Schuster), 2017. 40 pages.
Starred Review
I’ve got a new favorite Autumn storytime book.
Full of Fall tells about the changes in a forest in Autumn – with stunning photo illustrations and simple but not trite rhyming verse.
Here’s an example of the text for two spreads, with appropriately shaded brightly colored leaves under these words.
Hello, yellow.
Greetings, gold.
Oh – it’s orange!
Red, be bold.
The book begins with the start of fall as the leaves change –
One leaf,
Another leaf.
Colors surge.
Meet the trees!
Their shapes emerge.
(Had you ever noticed that when a forest of trees change to different colors, it’s now easier to see the shapes of individual trees?)
And ends with leaves fallen, on the forest floor, and geese flying overhead.
As with so many Autumn books, the last page foreshadows the coming of winter – with a photo of snow falling on colored leaves.
The text is simple enough for a baby storytime, but the photos and concepts are interesting enough for a preschool storytime.
The large photos make this book extraordinary – but the well-chosen words make it readable. There are two pages at the back that explain some of the science shown in the pictures, for use even with school age children.
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