Summer Days, Fall Days

Summer Days, Fall Days is actually two concept board books in one. The idea is that you are to read about one season until you reach the book’s middle (where you’ll encounter an upside-down page), and then you are to flip the book over and begin again, now reading about a new season. The text for each season begins and ends with the words, “every season has its fun”. In between these two sentences, Kate Colley uses simple rhyming text to enumerate some of the fun things that can be experienced during the season in question. For instance, summer offers opportunities for flying kites, eating ice cream and watermelon, drinking cold lemonade and just lazing about in the sun. Colley’s presentation of fall is less active than that of the other three seasons. Though there are opportunities to jump in puddles and piles of leaves, it’s also a period to observe how nature prepares for the next season.

Dale Nigel Goble’s digitally created illustrations are simple and engaging while also being gender and racially inclusive. His choice of colours effectively reflects those that predominate during the different seasons.

Summer Days, Fall Days would make a fine home or institutional purchase and should be paired with Winter Days, Spring Days.