Mary McKenna Siddals

NEW! Can you identify each of The Four Seasons?

Spin your way through the Four Seasons with this game

Cycle through seasonal changes in Round and Round

Dress for the seasons in this Wacky Weather game

Make a 3D Calendar Town to take you through the seasons

Experiment with colors in Paint Splat

Match colors with words in these three online games

Explore color with Magic Paint Brush

Create a Color Symphony with this experiment

Play the xylophone with Darby's Colorful Music Keys

Make Singing Glass, a water xylophone

Stretch into colors with some Rainbow Yoga

NEW! Mother Nature's Color Game (TLC)

NEW! Four Seasons - a traditional Chinese game

NEW! Day and Night Activity Theme (ChildFun)

Seasons module storybook & learning activities (GLOBE)

Every Year There Are Four Seasons (Gryphon House)

Journey North - Journey South
Tracking seasonal change (Annenberg Media)

Let's Think About Day and Night (PBS)

Paint a Morning, Noon and Night Triptych

The Colors of Nature (Science for Ohio)

Weaving Nature's Colors (Gryphon House)

Colors All Around: A Theme Unit About Colors

Color Activities for Kids

Activities for The Colors of Us by Karen Katz (pdf)

What Color Am I? project (pdf)

Paper Chromatography (Gryphon House)

A book of simple but deeply gratifying pleasures.
—Publishers Weekly

The pages will be smudged by the
enthusiastic pointing of little fingers.
—Kirkus Reviews

Cheerful yet elegant, spare yet satisfying,
compact yet enveloping... Both author and artist
capture the seasons with poetic intensity and wonder...
—American Library Association Booklist

Vibrant watercolors reflect
the text's simplicity and clarity.
--The Horn Book

This small and simple concept book...
is well done without being overdone, and the size
(a square seven inches) is just right.
—School Library Journal

All-season bedtime read.
--The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books

One house and two young children move
through the seasons with the help of clear,
expressive words and jewel-like art.
—"Capitol Choices" Noteworthy Books for Children

A preschool audience will delight in the
friendly words and bold, colourful images.
—Canadian Children's Book Centre "Our Choice"

Brings the seasons alive through
descriptive text and vivid illustrations....
—Education Today "Great Picks"

Each painting seems to evolve
into the next, just as the seasons do.
This is a small, beautiful book.  Grab it.
—Ellen Freilich in Variety Online
Entertainment Report

A visually stunning introduction
to colors and the calendar.
—Books for Growing Minds

The text is simple but musical...
Petra Mathers' art shines... Great for the very young.
—Eileen Spinelli in A Child's Book Nook

A fine, small-size book for teaching young children about seasons, colors, and day/night, as well as for developing early awareness of nature and observation skills.
--Infotech

The sophistication and wit here
make this book a stand-out.
--Yellow Brick Road