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The Tiny Seed (Picture Puffin)

By: Eric Carle
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Puffin Books
ISBN: 014055713X
ISBN-13: 9780140557138
Released: 28 Aug 1997
RRP: £5.99
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Long winded - By: , 16 Jun 2005
This book was a disappointment. I bought the board book version expecting something similar to "The very hungry caterpillar" which my one year old adores. This book is much longer, the writing is not suitable for reading to a one year old, much less clear & much harder to follow the story. I think this book would be more suitable for 4 years plus, though why they need it in board book form at that age is beyond me.
The basics of botany in a beautiful picture book - By: ELH Browning, 25 Mar 2005
Eric Carle is great at imparting information to children in an appealing story format & in this book he covers the annual cycle of a flower from a seed. The tiny seed finds a place to grow while many others fallling by the wayside, & then grows into a big beautiful flower. Finallly we see, in the autumn, the demise of the flower & the release of a new batch of seeds which brings us back to the beginning again. As ever, Eric Carle's illustrations are colourful & refreshingly distinctive & the story is straightforwardly pleasing. My children enjoy following the progress of the tiny seed amongst its bigger siblings, spotting it on each page as well as the one loses its way in that particular paragraph because of snowy or arid ground for example. Also, I like it that it isn't the biggest seed that makes it but the little one against whom you'd think the odds would be stacked. There's a good subliminal message there that you don't have to be the biggest to do the best.
An eye-catching exploration of the life cycle of plants - By: , 18 Jun 2001
Eric Carle is well known for his fictional accounts of lives of mini-beasts but in The Tiny Seed he unravels the complex life history of plants. This is botany - not in a nutshell - but in a seed pod. He doesn't 'name' the seed or make it into a 'person'. Yet the reader immediately makes a connection with this living being. It is alive in a very real & exciting way. All that potential is held within the seed & as conditions are right, the life is released. It's not a new story but it is expressed in words which zing with anticipation & delight. All bound together with Carle's trademark illustrations, mixing colours & media to entice you further & further into the book. For young readers & adults sharing books with children, this book is a feast for alll the senses. Enjoy!