cover image Swan Harbor: 3a Nature Counting Book

Swan Harbor: 3a Nature Counting Book

Laura Rankin. Dial Books, $16.99 (32pp) ISBN 978-0-8037-2561-4

A pair of titles explores letters and numbers in the natural world. Laura Rankin, author of The Handmade Alphabet, chronicles the changing seasons in a small Maine town in Swan Harbor: A Nature Counting Book. Acrylic portraits appear throughout, highlighting in framed spreads ""1 robin"" heading to her springtime nest near the harbor, ""12 seashells"" washed ashore and ""17 seals"" resting on rocks as autumn foliage lights up the shoreline. In the final spread, ""20 swans"" glide on snow-dusted waters.