5th April Autumn

Autumn is my favourite time of the year! I love the temperature and the colour. I grew up in  town in the Southern Highlands in a house with a very big back yard. The land was part of an orchard in a former life. It was across the road from a huge oval which was surrounded by oak trees, so Autumn was spent collecting acorns, coloured leaves and raking. As soon as there was a large pile of leaves then we became leaf jumpers. The crunch was one of my favourite childhood sounds. I am about to leave for a few days away in this environment, going for my annual 'autumn leaf fix'!

Before I finished at school last Thursday I got all the Autumn picture books off the shelves ready for a display in the first week back in Second Term. There's so many good ones , but here's my not-to-be -missed list.

Start with 

• Goodbye Summer, Hello Autumn by Kenard Pak        
  

Then 

• Yellow Time  by Lauren Stringer            

• Red Leaf, Yellow Leaf and Leaf Man by Lois Ehlert

• Leaf Jumpers by Carole Gerber and Leslie Evans

• Full of Fall  by April Pulley Sayre

• Leaf Trouble by Johnathan Emmet and Caroline Jayne Church

• Now  by Antoinette Portis

There are so many stories where leaves do not want to fall when they're supposed to

• The Little Yellow Leaf  by Carin Berger               

• The Leaf Who Wouldn't Leave  by Trish Trinco and Bryan Langdo

• Little Tree by Loren Long

And the classic all children love 

• Alfie's Long Winter by Greg McEvoy where leaf Alfie has to live through a very icy winter because he wouldn't jump when the other leaves did.

Finish with the best illustrations and a story that will really make you smile

• Waiting for Winter by Sebastian Meschenmoser

and                                        

• Goodbye Autumn, Hello Winter  by Kenard Pak

If you haven't these books, you may have some that are listed here. Enjoy Autumn.