Silver Seeds Full of Imagination

                                                  Silver Seeds

Written by Paul Paolilli & Dan Brewer

Illustrated by Steve Johnson & Lou Fancher

Publishing by The Penguin Group, 2001

30 pages

Poetry

Searching through many poetry books I was drawn to this particular one.  The illustrations automatically grabbed my attention. When I read this poetry book it makes me think of a great bedtime story that every child should have read to them.  Silver Seeds, is a book full of great acrostic poems that describe different aspects of nature. The way Paolilli and Brewer describe things in these poems goes beyond what the mind could imagine. The words are so descriptive and deep they connect you with what the poem is really about. Don’t miss out by leaving this book sit on the shelf; take a peak inside and let it help grow your imagination.

In Silver Seeds the illustrators Steve Johnson and Lou Fancher use painting as their medium.  Painting is such an art and these two are masters at it. They work together as a team on all of their paintings. There is a softness to there illustrations that is so calming, and the colors portray each poem and the pictures perfectly. The illustrations in this book are created to portray the words in the poem. Just how the poems are so descriptive so are the paintings. With no doubt, when one of the poems in the story is read what you would picture in your mind is exactly how the illustrations look.

Silver Seeds, is really a book for all ages but if I had to choose an age category to share this book with I would share it with adolescents and early childhood. The poems in this book would be great for students to use their imagination and draw a picture of what they thought the poem would look like. Reading these poems to a younger audience and asking them to write about the poem would probably be difficult for them but young children are great at drawing what they want to express. You could easily use these poems when teaching about nature and seasons during a science lesson. You could also teach a lesson on figurative language with these poems. There are tons of metaphors used in the poems along with personification.  Take a look at this link for a great lesson idea to go along with figurative language and the book Silver Seeds.

http://suzyred.com/Silver-Seeds.html