The Tiny Seed - Hardcover

Carle, Eric

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0340413042 ISBN 13: 9780340413043

Publisher: Hodder Children's Books, 1987

Synopsis

A new edition of this full colour picture book which follows the journey of a tiny seed as it blows away over seas, deserts and mountains, falls on to fertile earth, where it grows and produces more tiny seeds which begin their own journey.

About this title

About the Author:

Eric Carle is an internationally bestselling and award-winning author and illustrator of more than seventy books for very young children including his most well-known title The Very Hungry Caterpillar. Born in Syracuse, New York, Eric Carle moved to Germany with his parents when he was six years old. He studied at the prestigious art school, the Akademie der bildenden Kunste, in Stuttgart before returning to the United States, where he worked as a graphic designer for The New York Times and later as art director for an international advertising agency. The Very Hungry Caterpillar, now considered a modern classic, has sold more than 41 million copies and has been translated into sixty-two languages. With his late wife, Barbara, Eric Carle cofounded The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art in Massachusetts in 2002. Eric Carle divides his time between the Florida Keys and the hills of North Carolina.

From the Back Cover:

In autumn, a strong wind blows flower seeds high in the air and carries them far across the land. One by one, many of the seeds are lost -- burned by the sun, fallen into the ocean, eaten by a bird. But some survive the long winter and, come spring, sprout into plants, facing new dangers -- trampled by playing children, picked as a gift for a friend. Soon only the tiniest seed remains, growing into a giant flower and, when autumn returns, sending its own seeds into the wind to start the process over again.

About this edition

• Publisher: Hodder Children's Books
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0340413042
• ISBN 13: 9780340413043
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 32