Booklist! starred review Informationen zum Autor David Ezra Stein received the Ezra Jack Keats New Writer Award for Leaves, which was also a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year, a Kirkus Reviews Editor's Choice and a School Library Journal Best Book. Wonderfully simple and simply wonderful for sharing with children. Teachers will find this picture book a natural for curriculum units on leaves or hibernation! and children will enjoy seeing fall anew through the eyes of a big-hearted character more innocent than themselves. Just as Stein uses white space effectively in the art! he uses 'white space' well in the spare! precise text! leaving some details for children to notice in the pictures alone! such as how the leaves have been stuck back on the trees by spearing them onto the living twigs. Created with bamboo pen! the energetic! sensitive drawings are tinted with subtle shades of color. The narrative works seamlessly with the freewheeling! expressive artwork. In spring! he joyfully welcomes the tiny leaves unfolding on the trees.

but it was not the same.' As he watches the leaves fall and blanket the ground! he grows sleepy! finds a cave?like hole! fills it with leaves! and burrows into it to sleep away the winter. 'He tried to catch them and put them back on. He wonders! 'Are you okay?' More leaves fall. He lives on a tiny island with a few trees! flowers! berries! and butterflies! and he dances with joy?until he sees a leaf fall to the ground. Zusatztext To Bear! in his first year! everything is new.

Leaves by David Ezra Stein