Artist Sylvia Long and author Dianna Hutts Aston first teamed up to create the award-winning An Egg Is Quiet, a lush and vibrant picture book that examines animal eggs in exquisite detail. Now they have come together again to create A Seed Is Sleepy, a gorgeous and informative introduction to a fascinating array of seeds. Each book is at once poetic in voice and elegant in design, making them guides that are as equally at home being read to a child on a parent's lap as in a classroom reading circle.

Download a teacher's guide and a conversation with Dianna Hutts Aston and Sylvia Long, or "Grow A Reader" and "Hatch A Reader" posters that you can print out. And read the writer's and artist's notes for An Egg is Quiet.