IF YOU PLANT A SEED

This is a resonant, gently humorous story about the power of our actions, and the rewards of compassion and generosity, from award-winning, beloved author-illustrator Kadir Nelson.

If you plant a carrot seed, carrots will grow.
If you plant a lettuce seed, lettuce will grow.
But what happens if you plant a seed of kindness?
Or selfishness…?

This is a resonant, gently humorous story about the power of our actions, and the rewards of compassion and generosity, from award-winning, beloved author-illustrator Kadir Nelson.

Kadir Nelson is the author and illustrator of Baby Bear. He won the 2012 Coretta Scott King Author Award and Illustrator Honor for Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans. He received Caldecott Honors for Henry’s Freedom Box by Ellen Levine and Moses: When Harriet Tubman Lead Her People to Freedom by Carole Boston Weatherford, for which he also garnered a Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award and won an NAACP Image Award; Ellington Was Not a Street by Ntozake Shange won a Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award. Nelson’s authorial debut, We Are the Ship, was a New York Times bestseller, a Coretta Scott King Author Award winner, and a Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor book. Kadir Nelson lives with his family in southern California. You can visit him online at www.kadirnelson.com.