a New York Times Book Review Best Illustrated Children's Book of the Year
Visual poets around the world will soon be mining these endlessly suggestive fragments
Compendium
including such familiar ones as "The Grasshopper and the Ants"
The activities contain variations for varied age groups
One Small Square: Backyard by Donald M. Silver Magical Woodland Knits a New York Times BookA voyage of scientific discovery is as near as your own backyard. There you'll find a busy hub, full of creepers and crawlers, lifters and leapers, singers, buzzers, climbers, builders, and recyclers. It's a place where children can smell, listen, look, and get a hands on feel for life all in one small square of land and air. Backyard is just one of the exciting, vibrantly illustrated volumes in the critically acclaimed ne Small Square series of