Super Summer: All Kinds of Summer Facts and Fun

by Bruce Goldstone

Overview

Summer is a season of plenty—plenty of sun and fun. People take vacations and find plenty of activities in and around water. Animals try to stay cool, while bees and wasps go to work. Flowers bloom and fruits and vegetables ripen. Get ready to explore summer's amazing abundance!

With vivid photographs, lively explanations, and creative craft ideas, Bruce Goldstone's Super Summer presents all the fascinating facts that make summer so super in his fourth and final picture book about the seasons.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781250120151
Publisher:	Henry Holt and Co. (BYR)
Publication date:	05/07/2019
Series:	Season Facts and Fun
Pages:	48
Product dimensions:	8.40(w) x 11.10(h) x 0.50(d)
Age Range:	4 - 8 Years

About the Author

Bruce Goldstone is an accomplished picture book author. If you're in New York City or Buenos Aires during the summer, you just might spot him when he's out for a run, coming up with ideas for new books. Super Summer wraps up his celebration of the seasons, which began in Awesome Autumn and continued with Wonderful Winter and Spectacular Spring. His award-winning books also include the popular Great Estimations, I See a Pattern Here, and That's a Possibility!

Editorial Reviews

2019-03-03

Goldstone's final installment in his seasonal celebrations (Wonderful Winter, 2016, etc.) serves up all things summer.

"Summer is a…season of plenty" is the centering theme, and readers may tire of the word "plenty" by the end. Fittingly, a large number of page spreads are devoted to the heat—the length of days, how to protect yourself from the sun and keep cool, the role of sweat, how animals adapt to the weather. Goldstone also highlights flowers, devoting one spread to sunflowers and their heliotropism and another to the power of blooms to attract pollinators. Summer insects get a couple of spreads—one about harmless ones (at least to people) and another to stingers. The book concludes with a variety of types of vacation destinations (an amusement park, the woods, etc.) and ways to enjoy the months "in the water, on land, and in the air," a look at summer celebrations, and the looming start of school. Backmatter includes six activities to fill summer days. As in the previous volumes, the photos (some stock, some by Goldstone) are a particular highlight. Bright colors, up-close pictures, photos cropped in fun, summery shapes, and a diverse array of kids who don't seem overly posed fill the pages.

A solid ending to an excellent seasonal series. (Nonfiction. 5-10)

Kirkus Reviews