Here Comes Autumn: New K-2 Books To Read Aloud

Bell, Lisa. (2015). Autumn: Leaves Fall from the Trees! (My First Science Songs). Illustrated by Emily Brooks. North Mankato, MN: Cantata Learning.
This is both an informational text and a song book. A song book with music included.

Chernesky, Felicia Sanzari. (2015). From Apple Trees to Cider, Please! Illustrated by Julia Patton. Morton Grove, IL: Albert Whitman & Company.
A frolicking rhyme explains how apple cider is made.

Detlefsen, Lisl H. (2015). Time for Cranberries. Illustrated by Jed Henry. New York: Roaring Brook Press.
Harvest time! A boy, Sam, is finally old enough to help his parents harvest cranberries.  Explains the process. Recipes included.

Duval, Kathy. (2015). A Bear's Year. Illustrated by Gerry Turley. New York:  Schwartz & Wade.
A book about the changing seasons.

Hayes, Karel. (2015). The Autumn Visitors. Lanham, MD: Down East Books.
A bear family enjoys a New England autumn. The fourth in a series of books about the bears.

Miller, Pat Zietlow. (2015). Sharing the Bread: An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving Story. Illustrated by Jill McElmurry. New York: Schwartz & Wade.
Told through rhythmic and rhyming text, this story chronicles the making of a Thanksgiving feast by an extended family.

from Ask Me

Waber, Bernard. (2015). Ask Me. Illustrated by Suzy Lee. Boston, MA: HMH Books.
A young girl and her father talk as they go for a walk in fall.

Yee, Wong Herert. (2015). My Autumn Book. New York: Henry Holt.
A little girl creates an autumn book so she can remember the changes come winter. Rhyme. Figurative Language. 

Out Past the Sun: 5 Walks in Woods

Walking in woods...

Woods V (M.A. Reilly 2013)

Come—I’ll trace you one final autumn,and you can trace your last homecoming
into the snow or the sun.

 - Annie Finch, "Final Autumn"

Woods I (M.A. Reilly 2013)

This morning, it felt like Sunday.
The heavens did their part
By casting no shadow along the boardwalk
Or the row of vacant cottages,
Among them a small church
With a dozen gray tombstones huddled close
As if they, too, had the shivers. 

- Charles Simic "Late September"

Woods II  (M.A. Reilly 2013)

Woods IV (M.A. Reilly 2013)

Woods III (M.A. Reilly 2013)

"O wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn's being.
Thou, from whose unseen presence the leaves dead
Are driven, like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing."

-  Percy Bysshe Shelley

The Emergence of Color: A Photo Essay

On Saturday, October 29, 2011 a major snow storm dropped a foot of snow. As the trees were still heavy with leaves, the weight of the snow and the winds caused many limbs and whole trees to snap, taking with them many, many wires. I watched the storm rise up, caught some of it through the lens, as well as the aftermath. The story that emerged was one of color.

I. The Storm 

Snow Falling (Ringwood, NJ)

Snow Falling II (Ringwood, NJ)

Snow Falling III (Ringwood, NJ)

Snow Falling IV (Ringwood, NJ)

II. The Days Following the Storm

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Impression (Ringwood, NJ)

In Flight (Ringwood, NJ)

Into Fog (Ringwood, NJ)

Briar (Warwick, NY)

Color Rising (Ringwood, NJ)

Autumn (Ringwood, NJ)

Vertical (West Milford, NJ)