A bird drops a seed. It takes root, splits, pushes up, and keeps going until it is a sunflower taller than the child holding the book. Fourteen board pages, one clear idea, and an ending that pays off.

Every page has a shaped hole cut through it, so what is coming next is already peeking at the reader. Toddlers guess, then turn, then check. That loop is why this series gets read again the same evening instead of going back on the shelf. Lesley Sims writes it in a line or two a page; Kaly Quarles draws the bees, ladybugs and mice living around the stem.

Good hands on preparation for a first packet of real seeds in spring.