Bloom

Reviewed by: Connie Smith - Breakwater School, Portland, Southern Maine Library District

Review Date: January 22, 2018

Review

Lush, watercolor illustrations.

This endearing story would be appropriate to share with preschool children through kindergarten. In this story a mother and her young daughter share the experience of planting bulbs in the fall of the year. Mother and daughter engage in many other sharing and bonding activites as the weather cools and winter approaches, then on through winter until spring appears once again. They had almost forgotten that they had even planted bulbs until one day they discovered that the bulbs "did not forget" to grow.

"They grew steadily, Surely, Day by day, each a little bigger, Stronger, As certain as love."

We are shown that both the bulbs and the love between mother and her daughter grows steadily and slowly over the course of time.

A sweet book to share at any time of year!

Overall Book Score: good