On a Gold-Blooming Day
Finding Fall Treasures

Buffy Silverman has spent a lot of time and (digital) film capturing autumn imagery, and here collects it, along with a simple little poem to tie it all together. The images are lush, and I especially love the close-ups of insects and reptiles. Even a spider, something VERY scary for my kid, was ren......more

ON A GOLD-BLOOMING DAY, Finding Fall Treasures by Buffy Silverman is a fun rhyming book about treasures one would find on a fall day. With beautiful photography and rhythmic melodic text. It’s a fun read and will encourage readers to seek out signs of autumn.......more

I love fall and the evocative rhyming text and gorgeous photos in this book make me want to live in a world where it's fall all the time. The lyrical text is simply perfection - inventive in the best ways that poetry can be. For example these lines: On a nut-crunching, leaf-lunching, hole-digging da......more

After 'On a Snow-Melting Day' comes this gorgeous companion, and it's a feast for the eyes and ears. Eyes because readers will find the vivid photographs of wildlife captivating; ears because Silverman's rhyming text is dynamic and engaging ("nut-crunching/ leaf-lunching"), chock-full of active verb......more