Joyce Sidman
Dear Acorn (Love, Oak): Letter Poems to Friends
Stealth Science
Why this book counts
- Life Science
- Environment & Ecology
- Lyrical / Visual Picture Book
Dear Acorn lets small and large parts of the natural world write poetic letters to one another, including an oak answering its acorn. The imagined correspondence makes scale, connection, and the plant life cycle feel like relationships among characters in one ecosystem.
The science inside
- Ecosystems
- Plants & Botany
Your child will meet:
- An acorn is a seed that can develop into an oak, linking a small beginning with a much larger mature plant.
- Living things and nonliving parts of an environment are connected even when they operate at very different scales.
- Poetic personification can reveal a relationship while remaining different from a literal scientific explanation.
Use it this way
Parent effort: No prep
Told through poetic letters, this inventive collaboration from Newbery Honor winner Joyce Sidman and two-time Caldecott Honor artist Melissa Sweet reveals the everyday conversations between "big" and "little" objects in our ecosystem. Delightful! Dear Sky,
Hello! It's me, Bubble!
I'm here!
Someone's breathed me awake!
What is it like to be little? What is it like to be big?
Award-winning poet Joyce Sidman explores both in this lyrical picture book. Whether it's a small bubble writing to the enormous sky, or a mighty oak reassuring its tiny acorn, these surprising and delightful poems examine how we're all connected--in both big and small ways. Brilliantly illustrated by Caldecott artist Melissa Sweet, Dear Acorn (Love, Oak) will have readers dreaming up messages of their own to this big, beautiful world.
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