# It Starts with a Seed - Hardcover

by **Laura Knowles** (Author), **Jennie Webber** (Illustrator)

**With lyrical text, enchanting illustrations, and a beautiful fold-out scene to complete the story, this award-winning picture book takes you on a journey through the seasons and years as you follow a seed's transformation from a seedling to a sapling, then a young tree, until it becomes a large tree with its branches and roots filling the page.**

As the tree grows, it is joined by well-loved woodland creatures--squirrels and rabbits, butterflies and owls--who make it their home. A **rhyming poem** builds page on page, echoing the rings of a growing tree. The story culminates with a **foldout page showing a mature tree** shedding seeds to continue the beautiful cycle of life. At the back, find the full poem and facts about the specific tree, a sycamore.

Beautiful and evocative, _It Starts With a Seed_ is a factual story that will touch children with its simple, enchanting message of life and growth.

_**A 2018 Outstanding Science Trade Book for Students: K-12 (National Science Teachers Association and the Children's Book Council)**_

### Author Biography

**Laura Knowles** has a background in children's publishing and is the author of _We Travel So Far_, _Once Upon a Jungle_, _The Coral Kingdom_, and _It Starts with a Seed_, winner of the 2017 Margaret Mallett Award for Children's Non-fiction and shortlisted for the UKLA Book Award 2018. Her love of natural history, words, and art have drawn her to work on books about animals and nature.

**Jennie Webber** is a London-based visual artist and printmaker. Her etchings and drawings celebrate the diversity and complexity of nature, reflecting her incurable curiosity for the world. Themes of conservation underpin all her work; the idea being that if people are amazed by the natural world, then they will be less likely to destroy it.

**Number of Pages:** 32

**Dimensions:** 0.4 x 11.6 x 8.3 IN

**Illustrated:** Yes

**Publication Date:** September 05, 2017

## Details

- **Price:** 22.99 USD
- **Vendor:** Books by splitShops
- **Type:** Books
- **Tags:** Books by splitShops, Shopify Collective

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