Using rhyme, a friendly tone, and detailed illustrations, this book encourages readers to consider the patterns found in nature. An author’s note asks readers to think about why giraffes, some pinecones, and a cracked desert floor have similar shapes. What do they have in common? This is a good book to use to stimulate conversation and careful observation.

I loved this, I think it's a great way to show kids how to look for patterns and it teaches them how intertwined our life is with nature and art.

I was expecting more patterns, and I guess I don't consider branches and spirals and shells to be patterns? but they're not really shapes either, so maybe patterns IS the best word for them? This book is just OK. The illustrations are fine but nothing very special. There isn't really a story to it, and it didn't feel well connected enough to be cohesive non-fiction either. It's just a bunch of words about branches and flowing and spirals and growing. Once it a while it tries on a sing-song rhyming scheme, and then breaks it, and then sort of does it again, and it's just a little off-putting.

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A creative way to introduce young children to the scientific aspects of the everyday pattern around us. A good companion book for parents and professors looking for scientific and creative content for kids.

I think this picture book would be better illustrated with photos. The content was not as linked as I would have liked.