Research Catalog

Title

Flow, spin, grow : looking for patterns in nature / written by Patchen Barss ; illustrated by Todd Stewart.

Author

Barss, Patchen

Publication

• Toronto, ON ; Berkeley, CA : Owlkids, [2018]
• ©2018

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Details

Additional Authors

Stewart, Todd (Illustrator)

Description

1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations; 26 cm

Summary

• Patterns appear again and again, sometimes in the most unexpected places. Why? Explores branching and spiraling (with mention of spinning, stacking, and cracking) to reveal the shared connections between objects expressing different types of patterns.
• "Flow, Spin, Grow encourages kids to observe and discover patterns in the natural world that reveal deep, unexpected connections. For example, look up, and you will see the branches of a tree. If you could see underground, you would also find its roots branching. And inside yourself, in your lungs and veins, there is also branching. And as water runs off from the mountains, into rivers, then streams, then creeks, that is also called branching. Why is that? It turns out that where there is flow, there is branching. There are other patterns around us all the time, such as spiraling and spinning, the way shapes stack, the way things crack. And if you look into any of these patterns, you will find a shared "logic" in the objects that express them. Flow, Spin, Grow speaks to our innate impulse to understand why things are the way they are. In addition to math and physics, patterns are inherently beautiful. This is reflected in illustrator Todd Stewart's multilayered screen prints that take us from the miniscule (a spinning maple key) to the majestic (a spinning universe)."--

Alternative Title

Looking for patterns in nature

Subject

• Pattern formation (Physical sciences) > Juvenile literature
• Pattern formation (Biology) > Juvenile literature
• Pattern perception > Juvenile literature
• Geometry in nature > Juvenile literature
• Mathematics in nature > Juvenile literature
• JUVENILE NONFICTION > Science & Nature > General
• Geometry in nature
• Mathematics in nature
• Pattern formation (Biology)
• Pattern formation (Physical sciences)
• Pattern perception

Genre/Form

• Juvenile works.
• Instructional and educational works.

Call Number

JFF 19-1397

ISBN

• 9781771472876
• 1771472871

LCCN

2018930806

OCLC

1023548761

Author

Barss, Patchen, author.

Title

Flow, spin, grow : looking for patterns in nature / written by Patchen Barss ; illustrated by Todd Stewart.

Publisher

Toronto, ON ; Berkeley, CA : Owlkids, [2018]

Copyright Date

©2018

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Creator/Contributor Characteristics

Author: National/regional group: Ontarians

Author: Occupation/field of activity: Book editors

Illustrator: Occupation/field of activity: Landscape architects

Illustrator: National/regional group: Quebeckers

Added Author

Stewart, Todd (Illustrator), illustrator.

Research Call Number

JFF 19-1397