From Season to Season: Happy County Book 4

by Ethan Long, Ethan Long (Illustrator)

Overview

Ethan Long’s From Season to Season is the fourth book in the Happy County preschool picture book series featuring earth science and educational activities about winter, spring, summer, and fall. For readers who love Richard Scarry’s Busytown books.

Adventure awaits in another exciting trip through Happy County—where each new season packs plenty of surprises! Farmer Dell rides his tractor through the crops all summer long; Jimmy and Sammy search for Grammy Tammy in the autumn corn maze; Dolly and Molly build an igloo with the fresh winter snow; and Miss Humdiddy’s flower garden buzzes with pollination when spring arrives. This primer compendium is filled with lovable characters and educational content connected to weather, geography, earth science, word identifications, as well as the concepts of shapes, patterns, telling time, and grammar—all delivered through plenty of clever scenarios to keep little ones engaged and curious.

Christy Ottaviano Books

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781250857897
Publisher:	Henry Holt and Co. (BYR)
Publication date:	10/19/2021
Series:	Happy County Series , #4
Sold by:	Macmillan
Format:	eBook
Pages:	48
File size:	80 MB
Note:	This product may take a few minutes to download.
Age Range:	3 - 6 Years

About the Author

Ethan Long is the acclaimed author and illustrator of many books for children, including Hello, World!, Sun and Moon Together, and Cars, Signs, and Porcupines, Books 1, 2, and 3 in the Happy County series, as well as Tickle the Duck, Fright Club, Valensteins, Fangsgiving, Chamelia and Up, Tall and High!, for which he received the Geisel Award. He is the illustrator of Dump Truck’s Colors and Cement Mixer’s ABC, two board books in the bestselling Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site series. He is also the creator of the animated, Emmy-nominated series Tasty Time with ZeFronk. Ethan lives with his family in Orlando, Florida.

Ethan Long is the Geisel Award-winning author and illustrator of Up, Tall and High!, as well as many other picture books, including Fright Club, Scribbles and Ink, and Chamelia and the New Kid in Class. He also created Tasty Time with ZeFronk on the Disney Channel. Ethan lives in Orlando, Florida.

www.ethanlong.com

Editorial Reviews

2021-06-29
Visit Happy County again for a year of fun.

Readers are invited back to the action-packed adventures found in Happy County in this fourth installment of the series. These titles are designed for readers who love spending hours poring over a book’s pages to spot all the wacky hijinks, and Long doesn’t disappoint with these hand-drawn, digitally tinted illustrations. The characters are a brightly colored menagerie of animal citizens waiting to usher readers into their lives. An octopus wearing a backpack and a red fez uses a crosswalk to get to school; a beaver struggles to keep up with the snow using ever larger tools; a hummingbird gardener explains pollination. Savvy caregivers will use the book’s colorful style and open-ended questions to engage their kiddos by turning this title into a multiuse tool to encourage conversation, deductive reasoning, and vocabulary building. The book bounces from topic to topic and activity to activity with a carefree brio that high-energy readers will enjoy. The range of spread design is diverse, including picture dictionary, seek-and-find, and comics panels. While some activities fall flat, there’s so much happening most readers will be amused and challenged. The seasonal approach is organizational rather than scientific, and the buoyant, Muppet-like energy will carry readers through all four of them. (This book was reviewed digitally.)

Zany fun well worth repeat reads. (Picture book. 4-6)

Kirkus Reviews