Swirl By Swirl Multicultural Eric Carle's colorful collages have

Eric Carle's colorful collages have delighted children for more than a generation

and the student learns that 400 years ago

Each chapter is bookended with an illustrated recipe—many of them treasured family dishes

Celebrating the love of grandparents and grandchildren

Swirl By Swirl Multicultural Eric Carle's colorful collages haveA Caldecott medalist and a Newbery Honor winning poet celebrate the beauty and value of spirals. What makes the tiny snail shell so beautiful? Why does that shape occur in nature over and over again in rushing rivers, in a flower bud, even inside your ear? With simplicity and grace, Joyce Sidman's poetry paired with Beth Krommes's scratchboard illustrations not only reveal the many spirals in nature from fiddleheads to elephant tusks, from crashing