By Kaylie Seed
Carme Lemniscates’s adorable children’s book Seeds is a book about the various seeds in our world, including the life cycle of plants and how seeds grow, while also being a tool meant to teach children about kindness. The artwork in Seeds is fun and easy on the eyes, so both children and adults will enjoy looking at the gorgeous pictures. This would be a great book to use in a classroom, where it could be used in both a science setting as well as a way to talk about anti-bullying and how impactful being kind or not being kind is.
Children’s books like Seeds will keep the child’s attention and will offer lots to discuss as the story progresses, because of the different colours, plants, and facial expressions present throughout. There are also a lot of activities that caregivers and teachers can create to parallel Seeds—they can do art projects around the life cycle of a plant, plant seeds and watch them grow in real time, and continue to teach children about our kindness seeds and how we must plant them no matter where we go in life. This bright and colourful story will take children through different types of seeds and how they come to be while also tying in how our actions impact others.
*Thank you to Candlewick Press for the complimentary copy in exchange for an honest review!