An Egg is Quiet and A Seed is Sleepy

By Diana Hutts Aston , Illustrated by Syliva Long

An Egg is Quiet is a masterpiece! This book feels like a nature walk through alluring water-colored fields. Yet despite the sublime illustrations and rich information presented on every page, An Egg is Quiet is not like any science book you or your child have read before. The fascinating verbal and visual narratives are charged with a contagious passion about the wonders, qualities and possibilities of the beautiful, heroic EGG. Indeed, “An Egg is Colorful; it is Clever, it is Quiet and Suddenly . . . well, I’ll not spoil it for you except to say you’ll catch your breath at the explosive hatching of color.

A Seed is Sleepy
After the phenomenal success of Egg, Hutts Aston and Long have created an equally stunning Companion Book about Seeds. Seed dazzles with its gorgeous illustrations of so many kinds/sizes of seeds and plants, intrigues with its revelation of what awaits inside a seed, and pulses with the energy of the natural forces, (gravity, heat, photosynthesis) that call to the seed to fulfill its promise. Share it with a child and watch their understanding and excitement grow. This book is not just for children and naturalists, but for anyone who has ever put their hands into the earth or hopes someday to plant a seed.

Reviewed By Vivian