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Sunflower Bake. The photo author:

It was an (almost) flawless sunflower.
I also liked the little flowers within the bigger flower

 

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Sunflower books:

 

The Sunflower: A Novel book:
Heartbroken and bereft when her fianc� backs out a week before the wedding, Christine Hollister allows herself to be talked into a volunteer work trip to Peru by best friend Jessica so that the pair can work together in an orphanage called the Sunflower. There she meets Paul Cook, the handsome but damaged former ER doc who left the U.S. after being blamed for a series of tragic Christmas deaths on the ward…

 

The Sunflower: On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness book:
Author Simon Weisenthal recalls his demoralizing life in a concentration camp and his envy of the dead Germans who have sunflowers marking their graves. A sunflower, though it starts out small like all others, becomes tall and bright and visible. A beacon, as it were. The sunflower is the hope that comes with forgiveness…

 

Sunflower Sal book:
Sal desperately wants to make a quilt, but her big hands just don’t seem to have the knack of doing such small, fussy work. What she is good at is raising sunflowers, hundreds and thousands of giant yellow blooms by the back door of the farmhouse, behind the garden, on either side of the lane, and all along the dusty roads. A late-summer climb to the top of Bare Hill reveals that the neat squares of fields and pasture below have been “stitched together with sunflowers”–Sal has made her quilt.

 

Sunflower House book:
A little boy plants sunflower seeds in a big circle. He cares for them and watches them grow into a round wall of stems with golden flowers at the top. After playing in the “sunflower house” all summer, he and his friends collect the seeds from the dying plants to sow for next summer’s flowers. Rhymed couplets written in first person express the boy’s determination, surprise, and delight as he weaves his own play into the sunflowers’ cycle from seed to seed. The watercolor-and-colored pencil artwork shows a variety of perspectives, from cross sections of the seed sprouting underground to moonlit scenes of children sleeping out in the sunflower house.

 

From Seed to Sunflower book:
Two colorful picture books that introduce the life cycles of butterflies and sunflowers. Each volume is broken down into two parts: a narrative comprised of somewhat dry sentences in large type and a double-page fact sheet. Growth outlines are included in each book: from egg through caterpillar to adult butterfly in the first and from seed to full-grown and finally withering sunflower in the second. These “life stories” will be most appreciated by children who enjoyed Eric Carle’s The Very Hungry Caterpillar (Putnam, 1981) or Eve Bunting’s Sunflower House (Harcourt, 1996) and who want to know more.

 

The Sunflower Forest: Ecological Restoration and the New Communion with Nature book:
Ecological restoration has often been viewed as either a fringe hobby — a few aficionados re-creating a patch of prairie on weekends — or as a distraction from the vital and politically charged work of preserving more or less undisturbed landscapes. The Sunflower Forest is an important book about a practice that is, in coming years, bound to become one of the most important ways we deal with our surroundings.

 

Camille and the Sunflowers book:
“Where Camille lived, the sunflowers grew so high they looked like real suns - a whole field of burning yellow suns.” So begins Laurence Anholt’s engaging picture book about the relationship between the postman’s son and Vincent van Gogh. As the story unfolds, Camille and his family befriend and help this strange painter. “Vincent came to live in the yellow house at the end of Camille’s street. He had no money and no friends.” Vincent painted day and night, portraits of Camille’s family, the sunflower fields, even the starry night…
Perfect for youngsters 4-8, Camille And The Sunflowers is an inspiring introduction to the artist, Vincent van Gogh, and his paintings.

 

The Sunflower Parable book:
The Sunflower Parable shares the story of Logan, a young gardener who hopes to grow sunflowers that reach all the way to heaven by summer’s end.

 

Katie and the Sunflowers book:
Katie (from Katie and the Mona Lisa and Katie Meets the Impressionists) goes on another art appreciation adventure in Katie and the Sunflowers by James Mayhew. This time she steps in and out of post-impressionist paintings, including Van Gogh’s Sunflowers, C�zanne’s Still Life with Apples and Oranges and Gauguin’s Tahitian Pastorals.

 

A Place Where Sunflowers Grow book:
Everything seems grim about young Mari’s life in the desert camp, where “the mountains, the vast sky, and the blazing sun made [her] feel as small as a sunflower seed.” However, with gentle encouragement from her parents and art teacher, Mari crayons colorful pictures that lift her spirits, paralleling the sprouting of sunflower seeds in her mother’s parched garden.
A lovely bilingual picturebook (English/Japanese), A Place Where Sunflowers Grow by Amy Lee-Tai features illustrations from Felicia Hoshino and is the intimate story of a young girl and her life among thousands of other Japanese American families interned by the government during World War II in the Topaz Relocation Center in Utah. Deftly contributing to a historically ill state of America and their world, A Place Where Sunflowers Grow follows Mari through the beginning of her art classes during the heat of the summer, her discovery of life, her newly found passion for art, and the use of her art to cope with the harsh circumstances of her family’s confinement. Inspired by the author’s personal life and family history, A Place Where Sunflowers Grow is very highly recommended for all young readers ages 6 to 10.

 

Vincent Van Gogh: Sunflowers and Swirly Stars book:
“Brad” explores the ups and downs of van Gogh’s life and art in this colorful report, featuring Brad’s funny cartoons alongside reproductions of classic paintings like Starry Night.

 

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