The boldly colored background papers, of varying texture, make the leaves pop. Fiery maple, brown mottled catalpa and bright yellow ginko leaves take the shape of various animals and objects on each spread. All the while, Ehlert sparks her foliage flight of fancy with her snazzy leaf collages. past the spotted cows," and punctuates the lyrical text with an occasional refrain ( " a Leaf Man's got to go where the wind blows "He left no travel plans." From that breezy beginning, the narrator imagines the different flight patterns the Leaf Man may have followed "past the chickens, toward the marsh. A narrator recalls the Leaf Man that used to live nearby but recently blew away with the wind. ) returns to one of her favorite themes-the rainbow beauty of autumn leaves-for this refreshing riff on leaf peeping and collecting.
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