Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Swirl by Swirl: Spirals in Nature

Swirl by Swirl: Spirals in Nature
by Joyce Sidman
illustrated by Beth Krommes

Summary:  Celebrates the shape of a spiral in nature, from rushing rivers to flower buds and even the shape of an ear.

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011.

2 comments:

  1. Sometimes labels on things in the pictures distract me and I don't find them very artful. I thought the labels in this book worked ok. I think the pictures in this book are beautiful but the presence of the labels makes me hesitant to declare the pictures distinguished. Does anyone else have that problem?

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  2. I personally loved the labels, since sometimes it helped point out something I had missed when I first looked at the picture. The best part of this book for me was the end papers. Stunningly beautiful.
    Also, it has been around for a while, but there is a fantastic interview of Beth Krommes at http://blaine.org/sevenimpossiblethings/?p=2206 that makes for interesting reading.

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