Escargot and the Search for Spring (Escargot #4)

by Dashka Slater (Author) Sydney Hanson (Illustrator)

Reading Level: 2nd − 3rd Grade
Series: Escargot

A cute French snail sets off on a springtime adventure with an adorable bunny in this laugh-out-loud fourth picture book in the bestselling Escargot series--the perfect gift for Easter or all year round.

Bonjour! After a long winter spent indoors, Escargot can't wait to look outside for the first signs of Spring. Will he find a new friend in the fluffy white bunny he meets along the way? From New York Times-bestselling author Dashka Slater and former Pixar animator Sydney Hanson, Escargot and the Search for Spring is an irresistibly sweet and charming story about unlikely friendship, changing seasons, and springtime fun. This hilarious and interactive addition to the award-winning Escargot series is the ideal read aloud for story time and animal lovers alike.

Don't miss Escargot's other funny and heartwarming adventures for kids ages 4-6 in:

Escargot (also available as a board book for babies and toddlers up to 3 years old)

A Book for Escargot

Love, Escargot (also available as a board book for babies and toddlers up to 3 years old)

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Kirkus

Flowers are finally found and friendships are formed, but the steady, slimy path of chatty dialogue is, as usual, magnifique. 

Review quotes

Escargot tires of winter and searches for signs of spring . . . Hanson's gentle watercolors bring to life a charming verdant landscape. Equal parts insecure and boastful, Escargot embodies the roller coaster of emotions that many youngsters feel on any given day. Not to fear: Flowers are finally found and friendships are formed, but the steady, slimy path of chatty dialogue is, as usual, magnifique. —Kirkus Reviews

Praise for the Escargot Series: 

Escargot's voice is parfait. —Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books, starred review, on Escargot

Say bonjour to your new favorite animal, the garden snail! . . . Give this charming read-aloud a little extra joie de vivre by reading it in your best French accent. —Booklist on Escargot 

Escargot is a treat! —Booklist on A Book for Escargot 

A fun interactive book that will have readers practicing their own over-the-top French accent. —School Library Journal on A Book for Escargot 

It's easy to be won over by this mighty mollusk. —Kirkus Reviews on Love, Escargot

It was love at first sight for this magnifique book. —New York Journal of Books on Love, Escargot

Dashka Slater

Dashka Slater has written many picture books, including Escargot, which won the Wanda Gag Book Award; A Book for Escargot; Love, Escargot; Escargot and the Search for Spring; Baby Shoes; and The Antlered Ship, which was a Junior Library Guild Selection and received four starred reviews. Her New York Times-bestselling nonfiction young adult novel The 57 Bus won several accolades including the Stonewall Book Award and the Boston Globe-Horn Book Nonfiction Book Award. She lives in Berkeley, California.

Sydney Hanson is a children's book illustrator living in Sierra Madre, California. She works in a combination of traditional and digital media to create her illustrations--her favorites are watercolor and colored pencil. She loves the outdoors and is a certified naturalist who spends most of her spare time poking around the woods with her Labrador retriever, Cash. To see all of her latest animals and illustrations, follow her on Instagram.

Classification
Fiction
ISBN-13
9780374314279
Lexile Measure
-
Guided Reading Level
-
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Byr)
Publication date
February 06, 2024
Series
Escargot
BISAC categories
JUV019000 - Juvenile Fiction | Humorous Stories
JUV002140 - Juvenile Fiction | Animals | Insects, Spiders, etc.
JUV017020 - Juvenile Fiction | Holidays & Celebrations | Easter & Lent
Library of Congress categories
Rabbits
Picture books
Voyages and travels
Spring
Snails

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