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Saturday, September 24, 2011

Red sings from Treetops.... A year in Colors



















Title: Red sings from Treetops… A year in colors     
Author: Joyce Sidman
Illustrator: Pamela Zagarenski
Date of publication: 2009
Publishing Company: Houghton Mifflin Books for Children
Awards: A Lee Bennett Hopkins Honor Book, 2007 Cybils Award, A School Library Journal Best Book, & Bank Street Claudia Lewis Award

Genre: Poetry
Subgenre: Lyric Poetry
Theme: Colors & Seasons
Primary Characters: n/a
Secondary characters: n/a

Classroom Use: Great poetry book to read about the seasons of the years and the different colors.  

Summary: A poetry book that invigorates and captures the colors throughout each of the seasons!! The book goes through each season (Spring, Summer, Fall & Winter) giving lyrical details of occurring seasonal visions through the colors that can be seen all around. 

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