Picking Flowers - Eaglecrest books

This week at the library I found more of the Eaglecrest books for early readers.  I was really glad to see that the library had purchased more of this series.  We used "Picking Flowers" for our circle time.  While the text is very simple this book was very good for the circle.  We started out discussing why the boy might be picking the flowers and then identified the flowers as we read.  As the book used common flowers we were able to name them all and the simple text meant that pausing for discussion did not interrupt the flow of the book.  We also talked about the different uses for each flower, which one's we could eat, use for medicines etcetera.  We also tried to think of another flower the same colour that had a use. This book is from the same publisher as "Powow" which I previously reviewed.  These books are simple and nice, but sophisticated in layout, text and storyline.  I love that they use actual photographs of native children in easy to recognize environments.  They are well thought out and support good discussions.