Greenlee Is Growing

by DeStefano, Anthony; Ellis, Louise A.

• ISBN13: 9780593577967
• ISBN10: 0593577965
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2023-02-28
• Publisher: Convergent Books

Summary

A beautiful, poetic rhyming picture book celebrating the four seasons and how they interact with the seasons of our lives, from the award-winning, bestselling author of The Donkey That No One Could Ride

We first meet Greenlee as a young girl of three, in the flowering springtime of life. Greenlee Is Growing follows her through the spring of her youth and the summer of her adulthood. By the end of the book, she is a lovely old woman knitting by the fire in the cold days of winter.
 
Springtime is here! Springtime is here!
Snowstorms are gone and flowers appear.
 
Summer is here! Summer is here!
The days are much warmer and rainbows appear.
 
Autumn is here! Autumn is here!
Red, gold, and brown leaves and pumpkins appear.
 
Winter is here! Winter is here!
The days are much shorter and snowflakes appear.
 
Brave the harsh weather, don’t be afraid,
the end of the year God also has made.
For beautiful Springtime will be back, and then
new joys and new life will rise up again!

Anthony DeStefano has woven a timeless story of faith and fortitude with gentle joy that people of all ages will love reading.

Author Biography

Anthony DeStefano is the bestselling author of over twenty-five Christian books for adults and children. His books have been published in eighteen different countries and twelve different languages. A native New Yorker, Anthony attended Stuyvesant High School in Manhattan, where his English teacher, Pulitzer Prize winner and author of Angela's Ashes, Frank McCourt, sparked his interest in becoming a children's book author. In fact, Anthony wrote his first picture book, Little Star, as an assignment for one of McCourt’s writing classes. Three decades later it was finally published and became a bestseller. Anthony lives in New Jersey with his wife, Jordan.

Louise A. Ellis is an illustrator whose love of painting began as a child making a little book of birds using feathers from her grandma’s feather duster. Louise lives and works from her studio in East Yorkshire, UK, with her little cat Penny, who is always by her side.