Bloom Boom!
by April Pulley Sayre (Author)
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A celebration of flowers in poetry and photographic imagery.
Sayre’s latest feast for the eye and ear focuses on blooming plants, showing their emergence, their growth, their beauty, and their profusion in certain places and times, especially spring. Very short couplets (“Seeds sprout. / Stems pop out”; “Leaves emerge / stalks surge”) are printed in large, legible text directly on each photo, which fills a page or spread. The titular refrain, “Bloom, boom!” follows each couplet. Carefully composed photographs vary in subject and perspective, from fields of flowers to striking close-ups of shoots, leaves, buds, and blossoms. She shows surprising desert blooms, spring wildflowers, garden tulips, and flowering trees. Just when the pattern begins to feel repetitive she begins to include more animals in her images: a bumblebee on a lupine, a chickadee and a butterfly on flowering trees, and a lizard sunning itself, and she changes up her refrain, just once. The California poppies shown close-up on the cover stretch out on a hillside at the blooming, booming conclusion. The rhyme and rhythm of the text invite reading aloud; the pictures show well even across a room. This easy-to-grasp botany lesson is supplemented with back matter offering older readers more information about the bloom boom and about each photograph.
A charming introduction to flowering plants, this is an obvious addition to a nature-themed storytime that can also can be read alone by budding readers. (web resources) (Informational picture book. 3-8)April Pulley Sayre was from Greenville, South Carolina and grew up endlessly fascinated by the natural world. She was the award-winning author of more than eighty books for young readers, including Woodpecker Wham! and Eat Like a Bear.
Jeff Sayre is an ecologist, entrepreneur, and author with a passion for conservation and natural history. He and April have collaborated on twelve books together, all oriented around their shared love for nature and ecology. Juliet Menéndez is a Guatemalan American author and illustrator living between Guatemala City, Paris, and New York. While working as a bilingual teacher in New York City's public schools, Juliet noted the need for more books that depicted children like the ones in her classrooms. She studied design and illustration in Paris and now spends her days with her watercolors and notebook.JNF051060 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Science & Nature | Botany
JNF037030 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Science & Nature | Flowers & Plants
