{"id":43022,"date":"2025-05-21T22:21:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-22T02:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=43022"},"modified":"2025-05-21T22:21:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T02:21:09","slug":"review-of-patterns-everywhere-by-lisa-varchol-perron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=43022","title":{"rendered":"Review of Patterns Everywhere, by Lisa Varchol Perron"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/patterns_everywhere_large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/patterns_everywhere_large.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-45261\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/patterns_everywhere_large.jpg 250w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/patterns_everywhere_large-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a><em>Patterns Everywhere<\/em><\/p>\n<p>by Lisa Varchol Perron<\/p>\n<p>Millbrook Press, 2023.  32 pages.<br \/>\nReview written November 22, 2023, from a library book.<br \/>\nStarred Review<\/p>\n<p><em>Patterns Everywhere<\/em> is a beautiful nonfiction book for primary-grade kids that will get them noticing many kinds of patterns in nature.<\/p>\n<p>Each spread is dominated by a large photograph of something in nature, a simple rhyme about it with the rhyme scheme AABB (another pattern!) and a factual paragraph with more detail.  It&#8217;s attractively presented and shows a wide variety of things.  Here&#8217;s the introductory first spread:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Step outside.  Let&#8217;s find designs &#8212;<br \/>\nbranching, cracking, spirals, lines.<br \/>\nSearch the earth, the seas, the air.<br \/>\n<strong>Patterns, patterns everywhere.<\/p>\n<p>WHAT IS A PATTERN?<\/strong><br \/>\nA pattern is a sequence that repeats in a predictable way.  Nature is full of them!  Some of nature&#8217;s patterns are made of repeating geometric shapes.  Other patterns are created by color or spacing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The spreads after that show leaf veins, ridges and valleys, sand dunes, meandering rivers, corals, wave ripples, sea foam, layered earth, basalt columns, snowflakes, mud cracks, and spiral plants and animals.  There are two pages of more information at the back, including some activities.<\/p>\n<p>This is a simple introduction to patterns, attractively presented, and will open kids eyes to the patterns around them.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lisaperronbooks.com\/\">lisaperronbooks.com<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/lernerbooks.com\/\">lernerbooks.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1728460425\/sonderbooksco-20\" target=\"outside\">Buy from Amazon.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Find this review on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\">Sonderbooks<\/a> at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Childrens_Nonfiction\/patterns_everywhere.html\">www.sonderbooks.com\/Childrens_Nonfiction\/patterns_everywhere.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Disclosure: I am an Amazon Affiliate, and will earn a small percentage if you order a book on Amazon after clicking through from my site.<\/p>\n<p>Disclaimer:  I am a professional librarian, but the views expressed are solely my own, and in no way represent the official views of my employer or of any committee or group of which I am part.<\/p>\n<p>What did you think of this book?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patterns Everywhere by Lisa Varchol Perron Millbrook Press, 2023. 32 pages. 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