2014, Monarch Award, Nominee2012, Capitol Choices: Noteworthy Books for Children and Teens, Recommended2012, Minnesota Book Award, Finalist2012, Maryland Blue Crab Young Reader Award, Honor Book2013, Red Clover Award, Nominee2012, Ladybug Picture Book Award, Nominee2014, Beehive Awards, Nominee2014, Young Hoosier Book Award, Nominee2013, Volunteer State Book Awards, Nominee2014, Virginia Readers Choice Award, Nominee2012, Charlotte Zolotow Award, Highly Commended
A Caldecott medalist and a Newbery Honor-winning poet celebrate the beauty and value of spirals.What makes the tiny snail shell so beautiful? Why does that shape occur in nature over and over again--in rushing rivers, in a flower bud, even inside your ear?
With simplicity and grace, Joyce Sidman's poetry paired with Beth Krommes's scratchboard illustrations not only reveal the many spirals in nature--from fiddleheads to elephant tusks, from crashing waves to spiraling galaxies--but also celebrate the beauty and usefulness of this fascinating shape.
Hardcover.
About the Author
Newbery-Honor winning poet Joyce Sidman is the author of Song of the Water Boatman and Red Sings from Treetops, both Caldecott Honor Books, as well as other fine books of poetry. For her remarkable poetry, she has won, several times, both the Lee Bennet Hopkins Award and Bank Street's Claudia Lewis Award. About writing this book she says For me, writing is a matter of finding what things amaze and intrigue me and what things give me joy. She lives in Wayzata, Minnesota.
