This Monday we celebrated the launch of I Am the Seed That Grew the Tree: A Nature Poem for Every Day of the Year, illustrated by Frann Preston-Gannon and collected by Fiona Waters – a beautifully illustrated collection of 366 nature poems, one for every day of the year.
And here’s a look at the party, held at the beautiful National Trust property Sutton House!
The scene at Sutton House
I Am The Seed That Grew The Tree-themed cupcakes
Illustrator Frann Preston-Gannon
National Trust publisher Katie Bond with Jo Empson and Fiona Waters
Frann signing copies of I Am The Seed That Grew The Tree: A Nature Poem For Every Day Of The Year
Nosy Crow’s managing director, Kate Wilson
The National Trust’s publisher Katie Bond delivers a speech
Fiona Waters and Frann Preston-Gannon
With over three hundred fully-illustrated pages (the equivalent of ten picture books!) of poetry, in a beautiful and lavishly-produced clothbound hardback edition, I Am the Seed That Grew the Tree: A Nature Poem for Every Day of the Year is a truly special book to treasure and share. Filled with familiar favourites and new discoveries, written by poets, including John Agard, William Blake, Emily Dickinson, Carol Ann Duffy, Robert Frost, Christina Rossetti, William Shakespeare, Thomas Hardy and many more, it’s a perfect collection for children (and grown-ups!) to share at the beginning or the end of the day.
You can watch our trailer for the book below:
And here’s a look inside the book:
I Am The Seed That Grew The Tree: A Nature Poem for Every Day of the Year will be in shops from this week – you can buy the book online here, and if you’d like to stay up-to-date with all of our book news, you can sign up to our books newsletter with the form below, and you’ll never miss a thing.
