The Tiny Seed by Eric Carle

Book Genre: Fiction
Publishing Info: Simon & Schuster 32 pages
Awards received: none

Summary: The story begins with a group of seeds blowing in the fall wind. There is one tiny seed among the group of seeds. The seeds are blown in several different climates. Some of the seeds are killed before they are able to take root. For example one was killed because it froze to death. At the end of the story the tiny seeds survives out of all the other seeds in the group. It becomes a huge flower that people come to visit. In the fall it loses its seeds and they blow in the wind.

Personal rating: ***Good. This is a good story for students to learn about the process a seed goes through in order to produce a flower.

Reading level: 2.4
Interest level: k-2

Possible uses of the text:
Science: Make parts of a plant using a straw for the stem, cupcake paper for the flower, oatmeal for the seeds, brown pipe cleaners for the roots. Have students label each part!

Potential problems: none

Math: Measuring units using inches have different size flowers and the students can measure them with a ruler.