And Then It's Spring

By Julie Fogliano, Erin E. Stead (illustrator),

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Book description

Following a snow-filled winter, a young boy and his dog decide that they've had enough of all that brown and resolve to plant a garden. They dig, they plant, they play, they wait . . . and wait . . . until at last, the brown becomes a more hopeful…

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1 author picked And Then It's Spring as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Told in one long sentence, this is the story of a child and their dog who plant seeds after winter and wait and wait and wait for the brown ground to–finally–become green. The ongoing sentence resonates with waiting for hopeful signs that spring is on the way. 

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