Tiny Seed

When the tiny seed is blown away from its parent plant it travels a very long way - over seas deserts and mountains. The tiny seed survives the hazards of the journey and finally falls onto fertile earth. It grows and grows becoming the tallest biggest flower for miles around.|Eric Carle is acclaimed and beloved as the creator of brilliantly illustrated and innovatively designed picture books for very young children. His best-known work The Very Hungry Caterpillar has been translated into 70 languages and sold over 55 million copies. Carle illustrated more than seventy books many best sellers most of which he also wrote and more than 170 million copies of his books have sold around the world. In 2003 Carle received the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award (now called the Children's Literature Legacy Award) for lifetime achievement in children's literature. In 2002 Eric and his wife Barbara cofounded The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art (www.carlemuseum.org) in Amherst Massachusetts a 40000-square-foot space dedicated to the celebration of picture books and picture book illustrations from around the world underscoring the cultural historical and artistic significance of picture books and their art form. Eric Carle passed away in May 2021 at the age of 91. His work remains an important influence on artists and illustrators at work today. www.eric-carle.com|OVER 175 MILLION ERIC CARLE BOOKS SOLD WORLDWIDEA much-loved classic from the creator of The Very Hungry CaterpillarThis is the story of how a tiny seed travels from its parent plant and blows across seas deserts and mountains braving many hazards along the way before finally finding a place to settle and grow into a beautiful flower so that the story can start again. A beautiful and uplifting first introduction to the life cycle of a seed.Discover more beautiful books by Eric Carle:Brown Bear Brown Bear What Do You See?The Very Busy SpiderThe Bad-Tempered Ladybird From Head to ToeMister Seahorse