Spring's Sprung

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Summary: Enchanting, engaging, fanciful story & gentle illustrations.
Review: Lynn Plourde's Spring's Sprung is an engaging, fanciful story about the three daughters of Mother Earth, March, April, and May, who are responsible for bringing springtime to the world. But after a long winter's sleep the three begin quarreling and forget their duty - will spring ever arrive? The warm and gentle illustrations by Greg Couch fill every two-page spread with generous color and life, in this enchanting and enthustastically recommended picturebook fable for beginning readers.

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Summary: Lyrical Continuation of the series
Review: My daughter and I love these books! The illustrations are beautiful - the stories gentle and yet also bringing forth a point to both child and parent alike.

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Summary: replaced beauty with stereotypes better avoided
Review: The other reviews say it all. The whimsical artwork and prose of Wild Child and Winter Waits were completely supported by the seasonal sweetness of the books. Spring's Sprung brought more focus to querrling than to beauty of the book or of the cycles of the season. Advocating harmonious sibling relationships in my own household, I feel that bringing the message of sibling rivalry as normal and inevitable (part of the childhood "season"?)to be against my values. If you are careful about the messages you bring to your children read this book before buying.