Description "Who shall we play with? Let's play with flowers." A book that helps children become friends with pretty flowers through spring, summer, fall, and winter. The best toy for children is nature. All the flowers, trees, and bugs that live and breathe in nature make wonderful friends for children. By seeing, hearing, touching, and feeling nature, children learn about life and grow up healthy. This book captures the various flowers that bloom and fade with the flow of the four seasons, from spring to winter, along with the joyful children who become friends with them. In spring, children walk along paths lined with forsythias and play house with azalea petals. They look closely at the grass to find tiny violets, and gently touch lily of the valley to see if it makes a sound. In summer, they blow "toot-toot" through morning glory blossoms like a trumpet, and dye their little fingernails red with touch-me-not petals. They compare their height with sunflowers to see who's taller, and feel the breeze together with cosmos flowers. As children play with flowers, they grow up just as beautifully as the flowers themselves. The flower illustrations in this book are drawn with great care, capturing the actual shapes and colors of real flowers in exquisite, delicate detail. And the sight of a child playing and becoming friends with flowers is even more beautiful and lovable.