Lauren Stringer celebrates the coming of autumn in this exuberant, joyful ode to that magical time when the leaves are changing color and the animals are preparing for winter.
Children and animals alike excitedly anticipate yellow time, when the trees release their colorful leaves to blanket the earth, crows raise their voices joyfully from the bare branches, and squirrels busy themselves preparing their nests for winter. This lyrical celebration of the beauty and fun of autumn is sure to become a perennial fall favorite.
Lauren Stringer is an artist, author, and theatrical designer living in Minneapolis, MN. Her first illustrated picture book, Mud, written by Mary Lyn Ray, won a Minnesota Book Award, IRA Children’s Choice, and Crayola Kids Best Book of the Year. She has illustrated many award-winning picture books, including Scarecrow and Snow, both by Cynthia Rylant, Fold Me A Poem, by Kristine O’Connell George, Our Family Tree, an Evolution Story, by Lisa Westberg Peters, The Princess and Her Panther, by Wendy Orr, and Tell Me About Your Day Today, by Mem Fox. She own Winter is the Warmest Season was a Booklist Editor’s Choice. Her newest book, When Stravinsky Met Nijinsky, Two Artists, Their Ballet, and One Extraordinary Riot, was awarded the McKnight Fellowship for Children’s Literature.
