A Season of Flowers [Board book]

Snowdrops and crocuses yield to tulips and hyacinths, then dogwood blossoms, iris, lupine, daisies, morning glories, daylilies, geraniums, peonies, sunflowers, roses, and chrysanthemums as spring passes to summer, then autumn. At last the garden slumbers into winter under a blanket of snow, preparing next years procession of blooms. Like actors crossing a stage, flowers narrate the passing seasons in the first person, each one briefly proclaiming its unique and vital role in the natural world. Backmatter descriptions complete this childs introduction to a garden year, in which the passage of time is vividly realized.Michael Garland displays his impressive illustration range with the stylized, country-quilt, digital collage illustrations of Apparently this book came out as a picture book a couple years ago, but I have a hard time imagining it. You know when a book is adapted into a board book and you simply cant think of it any other way? Thats the situation were dealing with here. Garland simultaneously introduces you to the different seasons of the year while sneakily labeling each plant he runs across as he goes. Gently following the seasons, Garland introduceseach flower, and an animal or insect that it attracts, in rhyming couplets...Layered, fabriclike patterns enrich vibrantillustrations of flora and fauna; in one spread, houndstooth and windowpaneplaid make up the twilight sky, as a moon made of gingham and Chinese dragonprintedfabric hangs above thin iris stalks. A season-oriented introduction to bloomsand their qualities.