Publisher's Synopsis
Seasons teach us many things. They teach us about colors, about change and also about carrying on with the hope that someday you will get there. This book is about a bit of each. It has a funny preface about the virtue of perseverance followed by twelve stories, just like months in a year, spread over different seasons and illustrated with the colors that they bring. The author Zarreen Alavi has used her vivid imagination and woven tales of fantasy around her colorful art work created when only 6 years old. These out-of-the-world stories will keep you and your child engaged, and even make you laugh out at times. Read about the friendly competition between Mr. Chicken and Mr. Frog to learn new things, or the predicament of the Easter Bunny who wants to take time off from the job...during Easter! Learn about how the tigers were kept away from the grasslands of Africa due to heroic (?) antics of a bunch of monkeys and giraffes, or the bizarre and funny goings on of a Winter Solstice party organized by a group of cantankerous youngsters. Other tales involve magical butterflies, the Little Red Riding Hood story retold but in the process turned almost upside down, precocious kids with unusual superpowers for talents such as singing and fishing, the incredible connection between horses and ice cream, a bunch of performing poodles and their loving owner, a dream birthday party (literally) and some plain moralizing about kindness (for what's a good children's story without a sound moral?) No matter how old you are... even if you are an adult, you can read these stories aloud to your children, or enjoy them on your own. And as you go through them you won't be able to help but chuckle and relive your own childhood and the fantasies and dreams, and the riot of colors that came with it.