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Summary
Summary
In the orchard
a honey bee buzzes.
Its legs brush pollen
inside a fragrant
pink flower:
A small green fruit
begins to grow
and grow and grow....
Peaches and peas
and even peanuts --
they all begin with
a single flower:
How
Open this book
and find out!
Author Notes
Lola Schaefer is an author, teacher, speaker and writing consultant who is passionate about helping children learn the tools of writing so they can express themselves.
Lola is the author of more than 200 books for children including picture books, easy readers, classroom books and informational texts. Her book Frankie Stein, published by Marshall Cavendish in 2007, was awarded the Children's Choice Book Award in 2008 and the Mockingbird Award in 2009.
As an educational consultant, Lola has worked in dozens of schools across the country. She shares effective classroom strategies on writing workshop, the craft of writing, and genre structures. Lola offers demonstration lessons, as well as general presentations on craft mini-lessons and the art of writing. She is the author of ten Scholastic Professional Resource books for teachers that focus on strategies to improve student writing.
Lola lives with her husband Ted in the mountains of north Georgia. (Bowker Author Biography)
Reviews (5)
School Library Journal Review
K-Gr 3-This lovely picture book describes in simple terms the process by which plants flower, create seeds, and bear fruit, and shows the various stages in stunning, life-sized detail on lush, tri-fold pages. Schaefer takes readers into a garden, orchard, berry patch, and field to explain how peas, raspberries, corn, peaches, peanuts, and pumpkins grow-all beginning with flowers. This creative approach illustrates the plants' growth, maturation, and various types of pollination. George's photo-realistic artwork delights the eye and engages the other senses as well, though there is never a yellow leaf or a garden pest in sight. The concepts presented are not easy ones and a bit of abstraction is required, but the explanations are solid. Youngsters will want to rush out, buy some packets of seeds, and get their hands dirty. Growing instructions for the featured plants are appended.-Luann Toth, School Library Journal (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Publisher's Weekly Review
Pick, Pull, Snap!: Where Once a Flower Bloomed by Lola Schaefer, illus. by Lindsay Barrett George, focuses on berry patches, cornfields, an orchard, peanut farm and pumpkin patch. The text details how different produce grow, with gatefold flaps on every spread that open to show the harvest. A glossary and additional information on how and when to plant the foods mentioned wraps up this informative and accessible volume. (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
Horn Book Review
The growing season, from peas to pumpkins, is shown through a set of six gatefold illustrations. The outside of each flap describes the flower and its pollination, and the foldout illustration inside shows a child picking the ripe vegetable or fruit where once a flower bloomed. Clear text and large, realistic gouache paintings celebrate gardening while making science understandable. Glos. From HORN BOOK Fall 2003, (c) Copyright 2010. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Kirkus Review
Detailed, scientific-quality drawings, simple, accurate explanations, and fold-out pages make this a satisfying treat for gardeners young and old. Featuring six common fruits and vegetables, Schaefer details how each flower is pollinated, forms seeds, and grows into the plant under the flap. The layout is fitting for the naturalistic theme, since it is reminiscent of poetry, down to the repeated line, ". . . where once a flower bloomed." She winds down by highlighting the planting cycle's end in winter, and its beginning again in the spring. The final spread details the pollination and fertilization of a flower, as well as its parts. There are also planting directions for the seeds featured. A glossary allows those without garden experience to better understand the text. George's illustrations are incredibly detailed, with intricate drawings of parts invisible on any casual visit to the garden. The multiracial children tending the garden are everyday kids with baseball caps and tennis shoes, showing that anyone of any age can harvest the fruits of their labors. Perfect for budding greenthumbs. (Picture book. 4-10) Copyright ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
Booklist Review
PreS^-Gr. 1. This attractive lift-the-flap title offers a basic introduction to plant growth. On each spread, rhythmic, poetic text describes a plant's flower or husk and shows a cross section that reveals the seeds inside. A few lines of text explain a plant's growth, and then the page folds out to reveal the mature plant--peas, raspberries, corn, peanuts, and so on--accompanied by a bouncy refrain, "where once a flower bloomed." Plenty of facts are left unexplained (for example, What is the relationship between pollen and the developing flowers and seeds?), but the simple, appealing text shows the basic progression of flower to fruit, and George's inviting, realistic color art brings youngsters up close to plants that produce familiar foods. Back matter gives gardening directions for the featured plants, and a final illustration counts through the months for preschoolers learning the seasons. --Gillian Engberg