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K-Gr 3-Following an introductory page that explains the causes of the seasons and the meaning of the title, readers meet young Maddy, who feels that something exciting is about to happen. During a drive into town with her father, she notices the melting ice and snow and sees an old green truck with a sign on its door that reads "Sixteen Miles to Spring." Two men get out and Maddy and her father stop to see if they need help. The men explain that they start in the south and continue to drive north, but only 16 miles every day. As they travel, spring is always waiting just around the corner for them. Suddenly it starts to rain and Wilbur and Wiley ask Maddy and her father for help spreading handfuls of "stuff" from their burlap sack. When they throw it into the sky, the rain suddenly stops, the sun comes out, and everything starts to get warmer-snow disappears, flowers bloom, birds sing. Maddy realizes that what she had been feeling all day was the arrival of spring. The idea of the story is cleverly brought forward, but the execution is overly sweet and slightly corny. The illustrations are colorful but are no more exceptional than the story.-Wendy S. Carroll, Montclair Cooperative School, NJ Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information.
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Pelletier's lovely and carefree story, supplied with Krenina's lovely, iridescent art, tells of the coming of spring, that special moment when the air imparts a note of change. Here, two odd fellows named Wilbur and Wiley signal it to Maddy and her father, who are on the way to the garden store. The two gents are driving a jade-green jalopy, with the legend "Sixteen Miles to Spring" painted on the door. They explain to Maddy and her dad that they are making their way north from the Deep South, just that many miles a day. The first hint of something unusual about them comes when Wiley releases a hatful of butterflies into the countryside. He holds up a finger and cocks his head: "Here she comes." "Right on time," replies Wilbur, and a soft wind ushers in a spring rain. The men bring out a sack and all four toss its seeds and sparkles and dirt into the now-blustery rain, and spring blooms forth in a grand entrance. Wiley and Wilbur hop back in their truck and push on, inviting Maddy to find them again-she knows how far they'll be. Richly imaginative, with the harbingers of spring quirky enough, yet equally recognizable, to impart a sense of the magic in store for all of us. (Picture book. 6-9)
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780807573884
  • Publisher: Whitman, Albert & Company
  • Publication date: 3/28/2002
  • Pages: 32
  • Age range: 6 - 9 Years
  • Product dimensions: 11.08 (w) x 8.85 (h) x 0.42 (d)

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