Flow, spin, grow : looking for patterns in nature
(Book)

Originally published: Toronto, ON ; Berkeley, CA : Owlkids,©2018.

Includes bibliographical references.

"Flow, Spin, Grow is a children's picture book aimed at encouraging kids (and other human beings) to look around hidden structures and shapes in the natural world that reveal deep, unexpected connections. It challenges readers to look around, to observe, to discover, and explore. When you find a pattern, ask yourself, why does that happen? Where else does it happen? 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 (from a very distilled perspective) where there is flow, there is branching. There are other patterns around us all the time, if you care to look for them. There is branching, and there is also 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 - an impulse that motivates toddlers as much as it does research scientists. Of course, 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). The concepts are expressed in scenes of children engaged in imaginative play in a city park."--,Provided by publisher.