![]() ![]() People appear in two photographs-in the first, a dark-haired, light-skinned family of four revels in apple-picking in the second, which includes the poem’s penultimate line, a brown-skinned child hugs a dog in the midst of a pile of fallen leaves. The book offers older students the opportunity to learn about word usage and try their hand at writing poetry that uses the text’s format. Excellent backmatter elaborates-in sequential order-on the various phrases, adding rudimentary scientific explanations of, for example, fall animal behaviors, photosynthesis, thunderstorms, and why breezes chill a human being’s skin. The clever poetry pattern repeats several times, with the final page-still in two words-summing up the many parts. ![]() ![]() These are followed by more eye-catching photographs accompanied by pairs of rhyming, two-word, noun-verb combinations (“Crickets chirp. ![]() “On a gold-blooming, // bee-zooming, / sun-dazzling day….” Each of those phrases is in a bold white font against a different vibrant photograph of, for instance, goldenrod, a bee on a purple coneflower, and an autumn landscape bright with red and orange maple leaves. Colorful photographs and short, rhyming phrases extol the glories of autumn in the Northeastern and Midwestern sections of the United States. ![]()
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