The Gerda Muller Seasons Collection
ISBN 9781782504733
Regular price $45.95 Sale price $39.95 Save 13%This charming gift box includes four mini board books, one for each season. Each chunky mini board book is full of fun, active seasonal illustrations, with touching details to spot and no words.
Gerda Muller's beautiful 'seasons' board books are loved the world over. Beautifully illustrated, and with no words, children and parents can imagine their own story or simply spend time spotting characters and details in the lively seasonal scenes.
As spring arrives children play with lambs, sow seeds and paint Easter eggs. In summer they fish for tadpoles, play at the beach and eat ice-cream. By autumn the leaves have fallen and it's time to collect horse chestnuts, fly kites and make jam. In winter the snow has come and they have fun ice-skating, feeding the birds, and being cosy inside with the Christmas tree.
Please note that the Gerda Muller Seasons Gift Box books are in a smaller, chunkier format than the Gerda Muller seasons books sold individually. Please see comparison photo. Also noteworthy is that the ~2015 printing of the books were larger format, and the 2019/2020 printing is 'mid-size' between the two.
Overall box dimensions are 16 cm high x 13.5 cm wide.
Floris Books, Third Printing, 2021.
A Year in our New Garden
ISBN 9781782507093
Regular price $28.95 Sale price $27.50 Save 5%By Gerda Muller
Anna and Benjamin's family has just moved into their new house and even though it's in the middle of a busy town, it has a beautiful big garden for them all to enjoy.
Soon the family has made plans for their perfect garden -- Mum wants a lawn and a terrace, Dad wants to help the birds and insects, Benjamin wants to plant beautiful flowers and Anna wants to fill the garden with tasty vegetables.
Join Anna and Benjamin as, with a little help from their neighbour, they spend a year learning about all the wonderful things you can do in a garden: planting, harvesting, playing, enjoying picnics and spotting wildlife.
Alongside the charming story, A Year in Our New Garden also gives real gardening tips and provides recipes for tasty home-grown snacks to inspire children to get outdoors, be active and learn how nature changes around them throughout the year.
This beautifully detailed, seasonal story is a perfect companion to Gerda Muller's A Year Around the Great Oak and How Does My Garden Grow?
Recommended for 4 - 7 years old.
Hardcover, 36 pages. 306 x 232 mm. Colour illustrations throughout.
Floris Books, 2020.
'The combination of text and illustrations make this the kind of book you can keep coming back to. [...] There are some lovely examples to show children of how you can plan a plot to grow plants along with additional fact boxes and instructions to make things just like they have in the story. This is a lovely book to share with a class when doing a topic on seasons and growing plants.'
--School Library Association
'Simply stated, no school or community library collection for young readers will be complete without the inclusion of Gerda Muller's "A Year in Our New Garden".'
-- Midwest Book Review
'This is a really beautiful book.'
--Juno
'European picture books are so much richer and more complex than most American picture books, and this is no exception. There is much more text, but patient American children will be rewarded by a wonderful, layered experience as they go through this book. Gerda Muller's enchanting illustrations, filled with details, will keep little readers engaged as they experience what European children are lucky enough to find quite often.'
-- San Francisco Book Review
'Kids who pursue this gardening delight will need good reading skills - there's a good amount of text - or adult assistance, but the bright pages of gardening specifics and kid-oriented details on planting a garden shouldn't be missed.'
--Midwest Book Review
'This book not only provides a vivid reminder of the importance of growing our own crops, but it also includes detailed images and descriptions of the seasonal changes and some of the activities such as making an acorn necklace or freshly-squeezed lemonade in which the youngsters engage. I liked the simple fact that their new friend Louis, who is depicted in a wheelchair, has his own balcony garden as well. I also enjoyed the youngsters' enthusiastic embracing of their various gardening projects.'
--GoodReads, Barbara
'The beautifully detailed paintings invite close inspection as the seasons change. Helpful gardening tips, delicious recipes, and other related information accompany this tale and will surely inspire readers to create their own wonderful gardens. A fine companion to Muller's How Does My Garden Grow? and A Year Around the Great Oak, it continues her tradition of providing an engaging story that also seamlessly integrates facts about the natural world. VERDICT Both entertaining and useful, this book is recommended for every library.'
--School Library Journal
A Year Around the Great Oak
ISBN 9781782506027
Regular price $28.95 Sale price $27.99 Save 3%by Gerda Muller
Anna and Benjamin live in the city but love to stay with their cousin Robin in the countryside. Robin takes the children to see his favourite tree in the nearby forest: a 300-year-old giant oak.
Each time the children visit, they are amazed at how the forest and the mighty oak changes with the seasons. In autumn, they build a cosy den in the tree's roots to watch the squirrels. In winter, they learn to ski in the shelter of the forest. In spring, they search the forest for animals. But some creatures can be dangerous, and one night, the old oak tree helps Benjamin when he discovers something he wasn't expecting…
Join Anna and Benjamin as they spend the seasons with the great oak tree, and discover the fascinating plants and animals that live around it.
This new, expanded edition of A Year Around the Great Oak is a compelling combination of engaging story and educational information to delight and teach readers. Discover new detailed and accurate illustrations and fascinating fact pages, alongside the wonderful seasonal story from Gerda Muller, creator of the beloved Seasons board books, A Year in Our New Garden and How Does My Garden Grow?
Recommended for Ages 4-7 years.
Hardcover, 40 pages. 288 x 220 mm.
Floris Books.
'Gerda Muller writes with a lightness of touch that beautifully offsets her detailed and warmly realised illustrations. A beautiful book about discovering the wonder of the woodland and finding profound enjoyment in it.'
-- Children's Books Ireland Recommended Reads
'If there is a nature-lover out there, this is the perfect book for them... All the pages are filled with beautiful illustrations of plants and animals that live in the forest throughout the different seasons. The last few pages of the book feature information of the life of an oak tree, how a tree eats and drinks, what makes their home in a tree, and all the plants and animals that live in a forest -- a wealth of information.'
-- Youth Services Book Review, 5 Stars
'A Year Around the Great Oak is a beautifully and elegantly detailed seasonal story from author and artist Gerda Muller that includes the animals and birds that live in the great oak's forest.'
-- Midwest Book Review
'A gentle tale of children exploring the natural world whenever they are together. The illustrations -- of gouache, colored pencil, and graphite -- have the nostalgic appeal of mid-20th-century Golden Books, with people, plants, and animals rendered in a way that imbues them all with sweetness... Following the story is the new material: 12 pages of further information about woodlands, in lovingly illustrated detail.'
-- Kirkus Reviews
'This is an exquisite work of art with a timeless quality ... A must for all libraries and schools.'
-- Carousel
'Unpredictable, stimulating and ultimately confidence-inducing ... Gerda Muller, whose work may be familiar from her other nature-imbued children's books ('Goldilocks and the Three Bears', 'Where Do They Go When It Rains?'), draws each activity and animal with great detail and attention. Leaf shapes are accurate, and the picture of the children making their hideout from sticks and leaves is as good as a scouting manual; for readers with access to woods this could prove to be a useful as well as a handsome book.'
-- The New York Times.com
'A must for every child's library and for any teacher looking for fictional works to support environmental education in the early years.'
-- UK National Association for Environmental Education
'With gorgeous illustrations and an engaging story, Gerda Muller takes us into a forest where we get to be a part of Great Oak's magical world for a little while. Young readers will appreciate the simple adventures that the children have in autumn, winter, spring and summer when they visit the tree.'
-- Through the Looking Glass Children's Book Reviews
Gerda Muller is an acclaimed Dutch children’s author and illustrator. Born in 1926 in Naarden, Netherlands, Gerda studied at the Fine Arts School of Amsterdam and L'École Estienne of Paris and has lived in France for over 70 years. Gerda's greatest inspiration is her love of nature and her picture books are treasured for their vibrant and detailed illustrations of the natural world. Gerda has illustrated over 120 books for children many of which have been translated into multiple languages. She is the creator of The Wildwood Elves, The Town Musicians of Bremen, The Sorcerer's Apprentice, Goldilocks and the Three Bears, the wordless Seasons board books, Where Do They Go When It Rains? and A Year in Our New Garden, a USBBY Outstanding International Book.
A Journey Through Time in Verse and Rhyme
ISBN 9780863152719
Regular price $60.95 Sale price $39.95 Save 34%Edited by Heather Thomas
An invaluable collection of poetry for use by teachers at every stage of school life from primary to mid-teens.
The poems are arranged by age of the child from six to fourteen, and provide support for the subject matter of lessons from botany and physics to history and astronomy. They encompass a wide variety of moods from gratitude and wonder at the natural world to the courage and heroism of individuals pitted agains the odds, and range from ancient Egypt to modern times.
Works by well-known poets -- Shakespeare, Blake, Wordsworth, Browning -- are found together with the refreshingly unfamilar.
Sections on alliterative verse, riddles, tongue-twisters, action verses and the seasons of the year provide a stimulus for practical activities in the classroom. Also included are meditative verses for teachers to help them deepen their understanding of the children in their care.
A resource book to treasure, it will awaken a love of poetry in both young and old.
Recommended for children ages 6-12 years.
Hardback, 368 pages. 234 x 156 mm.
Floris books, 1998.
'It was a great joy to many Waldorf teachers when this classic resource was finally republished in 1998. Written from the author's personal collection for use in the classroom, it is a treasure-trove of verses addressing themes across the curriculum in an easy to find organization. From the beautiful to the funny, from action verses to math to grammar to history to meditations for teachers (to name but some), you're sure to find inspiration here.'
-- Kristin, Waldorf Resources Consumer Reviews (www.waldorfresources.org)
'Simply put, this book is easily one of the best "resource" purchases I've made so far. I use it to find seasonal or subject-appropriate material and my children read it on their own too. Worth every cent.'
Elizabeth H., Waldorf Resources Consumer Reviews
Crafting Magical Window Stars
ISBN 9781782507796
Regular price $30.50by Frédérique Guéret; Translated by Anna Cardwell
Step-by-step instructions for crafting twenty-five beautiful tissue paper window stars, suitable for all seasons.
Softcover, 120 pages with 75 full colour photographs.
210 x 192 mm.
Floris Books, 2022.
Printed in China.