With a playful tone, the nonfiction picture book Plants Can’t Sit Still by Rebecca E. Hirsch (illustrated by Mia Osada; Millbrook Press, 2016) teaches readers how plants and seeds move in a variety ways, including how plants face the sunshine and spread seeds, and then the seeds sprouting into new plants.
The pages have 1-3 short and simple sentences, allowing the youngest readers to handle reading (or listening to) this book in one setting. It’s a quick read, but it teaches and shows (in the illustrations) how plants live and grow. Lots of action words are used to describe the plants, such as searching for what it needs, climbing a fence, walking up a wall. Different typography highlights these action words. With inviting and colorful collage illustrations and educational but fun text, Plants Can’t Sit Still is an ideal nonfiction picture book for young elementary-aged kids.
