My Sunflower Watch Me Bloom, from Seed to Sunflower, a Pop-Up Book

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Learn how a seed turns into a sunflower through amazing 3-D pop-ups!

My Sunflower explores the metamorphosis of the sunflower--from a tiny seed to a gigantic, beautiful flower--through colorful, pop-up illustrations and spreads. Children learn about the stages of a sunflower's life and the biology of plant growth, from planting the seed and watering the sprout to watching the bud bloom into beautiful petals. Each spread opens and lifts into a striking, colorful paper-engineered 3-D pop-up that showcases each specific stage of the sunflower's growing cycle. My Sunflower introduces young children to the basics of garderning and farming, instilling a love and awe of nature that will fuel their curiosity for many years to come.

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Publishers Weekly Review

This first book in the Grow with Me! series provides a quick introduction to how plants develop, tracing the growth of a sunflower over several spreads featuring pop-ups, pull-tabs, and other interactive elements. Opening one early spread triggers a stream of "water" to pour from a watering can onto a newly planted sunflower seed; a page turn shows a green shoot growing out of a large, pop-up seed. "The sun shines. The ground is warm. The seed cracks," Taylor writes. Later, readers can pull a vertical tab to make the sunflower's stem grow, and finally the bud opens into a large, golden flower that expands dramatically. Friendly animals-ants, bees, worms, a mouse, and a goggle-eyed snail-populate the garden scenes as the sunflower develops. An illustrated closing section shows a more detailed life cycle of a sunflower, introducing terms like "germinate" and "photosynthesis" for readers ready for more advanced information. Ages 4-up. (June) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.

Kirkus Book Review

A small seed germinates and grows to a life-size flower in a series of pop-ups.A one-step version of the transformation occurs first just by opening the die-cut cover. On subsequent page turns, water flows from a watering can, then a shoot pokes up from the buried seed into the sun, grows with the pull of a tab, and at last bursts into radiant bloom. In very short, declarative sentences, the accompanying narrative introduces basic terminology: "Down go the roots, up come the shoots." The bright ground-view illustrations offer a fanciful view of the natural setting, as Ferrero puts smiles on the faces of onlooking mice and insects, gives at least one earthworm rows of little legs, and, in the climactic spread, outfits a visiting honeybee with eyeglasses. The final opening, though unadorned with special effects, offers a more straightforward view of a sunflower's life cycle and introduces further key terms such as "germinate" and "photosynthesis." Though aside from that watering can, it's really nature's show, one of the two young gardeners on the front cover is blond and pink-cheeked, the other dark of skin and hair.A sunny alternative when it's impractical to go outside and watch real flowers pop up. (Informational pop-up/picture book. 3-5) Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.