Ignoring the boy’s “please do not stomp here” sign? Pale blue sky and tawny drabs flood Stead’s block-print-and-pencil images, which yield not a sprout until the closing spread, “and now you have green,/ all around you have green.” In an understated and intimate partnership, Fogliano and Stead conjure late winter doldrums and the relief of spring’s arrival, well worth the wait. Decem History Edit An edition of And Then It's Spring (2012) And Then It's Spring by Julie Fogliano 5.00 1 Ratings 16 Want to read 2 Currently reading 4 Have read Overview View 1 Edition Details Reviews Lists Related Books Publish Date 2012 Publisher Roaring Brook Press This edition doesn't have a description yet.
Worry and waiting are recurring themes: did birds eat the seeds? what about that trio of bears, seen happily “First you have brown,/ all around you have brown.” The boy plants seeds in the packed earth and waits for the plants to grow. Unfolding as a single sentence that carries readers from late winter to spring (almost every page opens with an “and,” pushing things along), the story focuses on a boy in blank-eyed glasses, who slouches in barren farmland with a dog, a turtle, and other assorted animals and birds. Julie Fogliano is the New York Times bestselling author of And Then It’s Spring and If You Want to See a Whale as well as the poetry collection, When Green Becomes Tomatoes.
Subtly illustrated by Caldecott Medalist Stead (A Sick Day for Amos McGee). Readers of Shaun Tan’s The Red Tree will recognize the glum-to-radiant trajectory of Fogliano’s soft-spoken debut,
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