Description
Two young children watch a milkweed grow in their backyard-from seed to new buds to flowers, the lyrical text explores the lifecycle of the milkweed.
Wait like a seed,
Cozy and small.
Wait like a seed
'Til the spring rains fall.
Wait Like a Seed beautifully explores the life cycles of milkweeds and its relationship to monarch butterflies. Complete with comprehensive backmatter perfect for school curriculums, this book combines the wonders of nature with thoughtful text and striking art.
Award-winning author Erin Alladin invites young gardeners to celebrate the world around them in this lyrical nonfiction text.
Illustrator Tara Anderson portrays these lifecycles with a nostalgic style, effectively capturing the wonder of the aspiring gardeners.
- 5,000-copy print run
- Pitch to major review media, including The New York Times, The Horn Book Magazine, Kirkus Reviews, Booklist, Publishers Weekly, and School Library Journal
- Pitch to gardening magazines and blogs.
- Featured at virtual and in-person conferences.
- Targeted marketing to major review centers, influential bloggers, and major library system selectors.
- Promotion on social media, including Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and Pinterest.
- E-newsletter promotion.
About the Author
Erin Alladin is an editor, a writer, and an ecology enthusiast who is always looking for ways to combine her passions. Born in Northern Ontario to a gardener and a forester, she spent most of her early life looking at and thinking about the natural world. As a young adult she spent nearly a decade immersed in Toronto's children's literature scene before retreating back up north, where she continues to edit while growing vegetables and writing about regenerative agriculture. Erin's debut picture book, Outside You Notice, received a starred review from Kirkus and was the Northern Lights Book Award winner. Erin lives near Parry Sound with her wife, her garden, and not quite enough bookshelves. A folk artist and award-winning illustrator who trained at the Ontario College of Art and Design, Tara Anderson is known for her lively and humorous illustrations of animals. Her books include the illustrated novels Harvey Comes Home, Harvey Holds His Own, and Sapphire the Great and the Meaning of Life, the holiday picture books Pumpkin Orange, Pumpkin Round and Easter Morning, Easter Sun, and the award-winning Nat the Cat Can Sleep Like That. Tara shares a farmhouse in Tweed, Ontario, with her husband, her young daughter, and several cats.
Book Information
ISBN 9781772783384
Author Erin Alladin
Format Hardback
Page Count 28
Imprint Pajama Press
Publisher Pajama Press
