Summersaults

by Douglas Florian

Book Overview

From the award-winning author of "Winter Eyes" comes a celebration of all things summery. In 28 exuberant poems, Florian writes of hazy days, fly balls, and swimming holes. Full color. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0060292679
• ISBN13: 9780060292676
• Release Date: March 2002
• Publisher: Greenwillow Books
• Length: 48 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 7.3" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 4 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3

Customer Reviews

The Very Best Time of the Year.....

Summer, the very best season of the year, is captured in Douglas Florian's marvelous new poetry collection, Summersaults. These 28 poems evoke the sheer joy of sizzling, shimmering, simmering, hazy, hot summer days, and the carefree fun of baseball, swimming, buzzing bees, and annoying flies, ocean waves, ice-cream cones, scooters, bikes and roller skates, fireflies, jumping rope, thunderstorms, and campfires. Mr Florian's delightful, engaging, rhyming verses are full of imagery, wordplay, energy and puns, and complemented by his cheerful childlike artwork in summer tones of bright greens, yellows, and blues. Together word and art deliver the magic of summer in all its simple splendor. Perfect for children of all ages, Summersaults is a charming little treasure, best read aloud and shared, that can take the coldest, snowiest day of the year, and turn it into a blazing, sun-filled day at the beach.