Flip, Float, Fly Seeds on the Move

Flip, Float, Fly Seeds on the Move by JoAnn Early Macken is a fiction, educational book about the different ways seeds are transported to new locations to create new plants. It starts off my talking about the weather that helps carry seeds to new locations and then it finishes by talking about ways that humans and animals transport seeds to new locations.
    I think this is a great book about seeds and the ways they move throughout our earth. I really love all the descriptive words that are used in the story and I think children will too. These descriptive words really bring the story to life. The pictures are very well thought out and go along very well with the text. Children will be able to read the words and look at the pictures to get a complete view of what the author wants the reader to see.
    I am currently planning a unit on how a seed becomes a plant and I will definitely be using this book to read to my students before and after our unit. Children will be able to get a picture of what they are going to learn about and then after our unit they will be able to apply the knowledge they have learned to the words in the book. Children in PreK and up will enjoy having this book read to them and learning more about seeds and plants. Emergent readers will have a hard time reading this book on their own but advanced first grades and higher grade level students will enjoy reading this book on their own. I think this is a great way to get students thinking about seeds becoming plants and I would recommend it for a classroom library or to use in educating students about seeds.