If you wait patiently and watch a planted seed in your flower pot non-stop will it grow any faster? Waiting can wear out your patience fast! Come on... sprout... please!!!!
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SPROUT, SEED, SPROUT!
by Annika Dunklee
Illustrated by Carey Sookocheff
* Age Range: 3-7 years
* Grade Level: PS-2
* Hardcover: 32 pages
* Publisher: Owlkids
* Pub. Date: March 15, 2019
* Language: English
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What is patience? It is the ability to wait, or to continue doing something despite difficulties, or to suffer without complaining or becoming annoyed. It is the exercise of restraint in trying situations. It is a virtue, which enables the individual to proceed towards a worthy goal.
A young boy scoops up a popped avocado seed that escapes as dinner is being prepared and decides to try his gardening skills on the large seed. He pokes the seed with toothpicks to support it as he balances it on top of a glass filled with water. His goal is to force the seed to produce roots so he can plant it and eventually have an avocado tree in his back yard. What a worthy cause!
He soon discovers that this is not an easy task as you need plenty of patience after continually watering, exposing the seed to sunshine in a sunny location, committing to repot the fragile seed if it does begins to grow roots and then, oh so carefully, replanting the fragile little seedling outdoors to grow into a tree.
There is a refrain of counting to three that runs throughout the book. It implants in the reader's mind that the boy could be reaching his goal sooner than later. But can you rush such a miraculous happening? You learn that patience is a virtue and you have to let nature take its course as it's totally out of human hands to rush the process.
The soft illustrations instruct the reader exactly how they too can have success at planting a seed. The book cautions the reader to wait and have patience and assures them that all the waiting will be well worth their while. Patience is a virtue, one to strive for. This is a wonderful life lesson to teach little ones. I really like the message that is planted in this book.
Storywraps Rating - 5 HUGS!!!!!
Meet the author and illustrator
ANNIKA DUNKLEE is the award-winning author of many books, including A Fire Truck for Chuck. She has eaten plenty of avocado, in hopes of getting a seed which would finally sprout. She currently resides in Toronto, Ontario with her family.
CAREY SOOKOCHEFF is the illustrator of the critically acclaimed Buddy and Earl series and What Happens Next, and the author/illustrator of Solutions for Cold Feet and Other Little Problems and Wet. Her illustrations have appeared in a variety of newspapers and magazines. She lives in Toronto with her husband, two kids, and their dog.
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