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.