The Boy Who Looked for Spring

by Susan Fleischman, Donna Diamond (Illustrator)

In a year when Spring does not come, Ben finds Mother Earth asleep in a little house deep in the woods, and he must solve three riddles to awaken her from a spell so that her child Spring can be born

23 pages, Library Binding

First published March 1, 1993

Reviews

[Kara · Rating 1 out of 5]

The pictures in this book are done in a soft tone of realism, and because some of the objects are not highlighted in black they kind of blend in and do not stand out, but blend into the background. The color palate is pretty dull representing winter until after the climax of the book when it turns spring. She does create some rough textures with the nature scenes to emphasis the bark on trees and also the softness of the fox's coat. The pictures are all framed, but the illustrator does add random branches of trees on the text side of the page.