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Miss Maple’s Seeds (Ages 5-8)

By Eliza Wheeler
Nancy Paulsen Books, Penguin Group

This gentle story about the life cycle of seeds, accompanied by Wheeler’s warm and colorful illustrations, takes the reader through the changing seasons and what happens to seeds during each one. During the summer months, Miss Maple loves to gather old seeds of all kinds—ones that have been lost from the spring—and then cares for and nurtures the seeds all through the fall and winter. The reader takes a ride of sorts with Miss Maple as she explains the ways seeds are spread via wind and rain, until finally spring arrives, and it is time to plant the seeds for new growth. One particular page identifies all the different types of seeds that Miss Maple gathers, making this a potential fun educational project for parent and child. Once planted, Miss Maple must say goodbye to her seeds, but we can see her joy when she walks through field and forest, soaking up the beauty and fruits of her labor.

This article appeared in Wise Traditions in Food, Farming and the Healing Arts, the quarterly journal of the Weston A. Price Foundation, Spring 2023

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