Worry and waiting are recurring themes: did birds eat the seeds? what about that trio of bears, seen happily “First you have brown,/ all around you have brown.” The boy plants seeds in the packed earth and waits for the plants to grow. Unfolding as a single sentence that carries readers from late winter to spring (almost every page opens with an “and,” pushing things along), the story focuses on a boy in blank-eyed glasses, who slouches in barren farmland with a dog, a turtle, and other assorted animals and birds. Subtly illustrated by Caldecott Medalist Stead (A Sick Day for Amos McGee). Readers of Shaun Tan’s The Red Tree will recognize the glum-to-radiant trajectory of Fogliano’s soft-spoken debut,
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