ReadItDaddy's Second Book of the Week - Week Ending 14th September 2018: "I Am The Seed that Grew the Tree" - Poems selected by Fiona Waters, illustrated by Frann Preston-Gannon (Nosy Crow / National Trust)

Our second Book of the Week this week is, without doubt, one of the most stunning poetry anthologies we've seen this year...
...and in fact it would take you a year to get through this sumptuous, beautiful and luxuriously presented book. "I am the Seed that Grew the Tree" with poems selected by Fiona Waters, and illustrations from blog favourite Frann Preston-Gannon, this is a real treat in book form.

Stretching across an entire year's worth of amazing verse for children, each selection marks the passing of the seasons, and all the natural events that occur throughout mother nature's extremely busy month-by-month changes as they subtly blend into one another.

Fiona has hand-picked an incredible collection of poems, some quirky and fun, and some with a more serious tone to encourage children to begin their own journey of discovery, not just on how amazing nature can be but how beautiful our language is when it flows in verse and rhyme.

A book that starts with a short and sweet verse...

Frann's characterful illustrations are utterly beautiful (it must have been a heck of a lot of work to come up with such beautiful and brilliant illustrations for so many aspects of nature and the seasons).

...and continues with each date of the year offering a new poem to enjoy by many, many of the greatest poets ever to put pen to paper. Fantastic!

This is a very special book, we started out picking out key birthdays and dates, and then got completely wrapped up in the idea of reading a poem a day for an entire year - what a pleasurable and restful thing to do!

We loved "Squishy Words (to be said when wet) very much!

Absolutely incredible, and definitely not to be missed.

"I Am The Seed That Grew The Tree" with poems selected by Fiona Waters, and illustrations by Frann Preston-Gannon is out now, published by Nosy Crow / National Trust (kindly supplied for review).