Wheeler has clearly had a good time inventing fairy-house fixtures for Miss Maple: flower lantern boats and hollow-log houses make one yearn to escape our big, unwieldy world and inhabit hers. In this story, Miss Maple gathers lost seeds that haven’t yet found a place to sprout.

Miss Maple gathers lost seeds that haven’t yet found a place to. But never forget.' Careful observation of seeds (including a labeled seed chart), leaves, and plants gives the artwork substance, and Japanese woodblock style skies that fade to sunset hues provide a wistful emotional overlay. While this isn’t technically a book about foster care, it was recommended to us in one of our Facebook posts, and has a lot of themes that may connect with the children in your care. Fans of Miss Rumphius will adore this gorgeous picture book which introduces the kind, nature-loving Miss Maple, who celebrates the miracle in each seed. See the winners announced live at the Minnesota Book Awards Ceremony Presented by Education Minnesota media sponsor: Star Tribune. Miss Maples Seeds book by Eliza Wheeler Childrens Books > Family Life Books ISBN: 0399255931 ISBN13: 9780399255939 Miss Maples Seeds by Eliza Wheeler No Customer Reviews Select Format Hardcover 5.39 - 5.59 Paperback 4.69 - 8.99 Library Binding - Select Condition Like New Unavailable Very Good 4.69 Good 7. She has illustrated numerous books for children. After gathering lost seeds during the summer, a kind woman tends and instructs them throughout the fall and winter before sending them out in the spring to find roots of their own.

Miss Maple is a grandmotherly, Borrowers-sized woman who adopts 'orphan seeds that got lost during the spring planting.' Dressed in a big straw hat and a billowing skirt, she marshals bluebirds to collect the seeds in baskets on their backs, finds leaf boats to take the seeds on field trips 'to learn about being a seed,' befriends woodland animals to pass the winter days around the hearth with, then sets the seeds free from a bough high in the air: 'Take care, my little ones, for the world is big and you are small. Eliza Wheeler is the bestselling illustrator-author of Miss Maple’s Seeds and was a recipient of the prestigious Sendak Fellowship. Confident artistry and an intuitive knowledge of what the world looks like to a very small person make a winning combination in Wheeler's debut.

Miss Maple's Seeds by Eliza Wheeler