Overview

National Trust – I Am the Seed That Grew the Tree (Nosy Crow Poetry Book)

I Am the Seed That Grew the Tree: A Nature Poem For Every Day Of The Year, named after the first line of Judith Nicholls’ poem ‘Windsong’, is a lavishly illustrated collection of 366 nature poems – one for every day of the year, including leap years. Filled with familiar favourites and new discoveries, written by a wide variety of poets, including John Agard, William Blake, Emily Brontë, Charles Causley, Walter de la Mare, Emily Dickinson, Carol Ann Duffy, Eleanor Farjeon, Robert Frost, Thomas Hardy, Roger McGough, Christina Rossetti, William Shakespeare, John Updike, William Wordsworth and many more, this is the perfect book for children (and grown-ups!) to share at the beginning or the end of the day, or just to dip into.

Awards: 

• Nominated for the 2020 CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal
• Red Magazine Big Book Award Children’s Illustrated Book of the Year 2019
• Waterstones Children’s Gift of the Year 2018
• Winner of the British Book Design & Production Award’s Children’s Trade 0 to 8 Years Award 2019
• Featured in The Independent as one of their Best New Poetry Books of 2018, The Guardian as one of their Best New Children’s Books, and the i as one of their best gifts for 2-year-olds

Hardcover: 336 pages

ISBN: 9780857637703

Dimensions: 25.5 x 3.3 x 28 cm

Written by: Fiona Waters

Illustrated by: Frann Preston-Gannon