Goodbye Summer, Hello Autumn

     

              I choose this book to write about because I love Autumn. Fall weather is my favorite, most of all, I hate summer time. I am from Florida, so you guys know about our heat year round, but when the official 100 degree weather leaves, and cool winds come in, and the temps drop to about 75 on a hot day, I'm fine with that. Especially between September and November, hurricane season, because  love windy rainy days, that's my favorite weather of all time.

       This story is also, not a story with a plot, common to normal story books. More like a conversation with the summer and everything that it includes, saying goodbye to the things you see and do in summer, and watching the world prepare for the fall time.

       Great water colors, cool tones, bright reds and oranges, watching the greens fade away in the book, all great parts of the illustrations. The genre of the story, being somewhat fictional, with talking animals and all, but also having a realistic type of feel, being that it is accurately showing how the weather, season and times of year change out.

      You watch this young boy, in the book, walk through the woods, seeing animals prepare for hibernation, seeing the leaves change colors, seeing people in the town add layers f clothing on, so much to show the change and affection of the fall time.

       This would be a great book to read on the back porch, late September, at about 6 pm!

       Just saying!

        I remember when I was in elementary school, we did a "leaf" activity, where we went out, picked up leaves, and can inside to trace them. That would be something cool to do for a fall time activity. Also a pros and cons list of what we like about summer and fall.

1) What is your favorite season? Kind of weather?
2) When saying goodbye to the summer, what will you miss the most?
3) Different states and parts of the world feel different, weather-wise,  different parts of the year. Where do you live? How does your summer feel? Autumn?

Pak, Kenard. (2016). Goodbye Summer, Hello Autumn. New York, New York: Henry Holt &
       Company.