A great book for teaching students about the different seasons and months of the year and the bog holidays we associate with each month as well as the seasons to go with it. Great for teaching poetry as well as engaging kids in associating the different things the characters in the book do with the things that kids do in real life during those seasons and months and holiday's. ( )

A Child’s Calendar by John Updike is a collection of 12 poems, one for each month of the year. Each double-page spread contains a poem, a full-page illustration, and a small illustration that shares the page with the poem. The poems are between four and five stanzas. I love the rich vocabulary used throughout the book. The illustrations are perfect and allow the children to see the seasons change throughout the book. The illustrations do include diverse children and families. This book received the Caldecott Honor in 2000.

I have kept this book for over 50 years. Still loved having this book read to me and reading on my own. Gift from my mother in 1969. ( )

A lovely book about the months of the year with poems that should appeal to grade school children, and illustrations that will delight older readers. The marvelous watercolor illustrations are what bumped this up to a four-star read for me. ( )

This striking picture book takes the reader through all of the calendar year, associating each season with its characteristic human activities and/or natural events/phenomena. The book helps children to identify activities and to associate them with changing seasons, while also teaching about elemental changes in weather as the year turns.