Picture Book School Series Volume 4.
This book is about reading picture books for each season of spring, summer, fall, and winter with children and cooking raw food dishes using seasonal ingredients.
It contains special raw food recipes, vivid photos, and various post-reading activities for picture books.
You can experience picture books with your whole body by listening to the text, looking at the pictures, smelling the ingredients, and cooking and tasting them with your hands.
Picture books that we encounter using our five senses seep into our hearts and are remembered by our fingertips, enriching our body and mind.

I quickly poured warm chocolate syrup over slightly frozen strawberries, and the chocolate hardened, turning them into chocolate-covered strawberries.
“The strawberry went into the hot spring and came out wearing a chocolate outfit.”
Laughter erupted at the child's words.
Sprinkle hemp seeds on chocolate-coated strawberries and you have stylish chocolate strawberries.
The children named the chocolate strawberries they made with words from the picture book.
The author's desire to convey the beauty of nature through strawberries reached children.

--- From "Strawberry and Chocolate Strawberry"

I decided to create a piece of art using only 8-section kale leaves as a canvas and exhibit it.
Children completed their own works by making holes using punches, awls, scissors, knives, etc. and drawing pictures with magic pens.
One child's kale became a honeycomb filled with holes, while another child's kale became a fish with sparkling green scales.
I titled the work, which had a premonition that it would become a juice and brought tears to my eyes, 'Tears of Kale'.

--- From "The Many Greens of the World" and Kale Chips

After giving the last peach to the turtles, there were no peaches left.
The sky was cloudy and it rained and then stopped.
When I opened the folded pages of the picture book to both sides like a window, it was full of peach blossoms.
The seeds that I spit out after eating the peach my grandmother gave me grew into a peach tree and blossomed.
It was a beautiful picture book that depicted the natural 'cycle' of a peach seed returning to the earth through trees, fruit, and animals through 'sharing'.
Now it was time to make and taste peach petal tea like Grandma Lin.

--- From "Grandma Lin's Peach Tree and Peach Marang Tea"

A picture book to read along with acorns, ginkgo nuts, walnuts, and jujubes is 『Chestnut Picnic』, which features cute squirrels.
One autumn day, the squirrels go on a picnic to pick chestnuts with long sticks.
There were only small chestnuts in the forest, so I looked up at the sky and saw an enormous chestnut on top of a chestnut tree.
The story reaches its climax when the squirrels, having made a long pole by weaving together all the sticks they had brought, accidentally poke a cloud floating in the sky while touching a chestnut tree.
After reading the entire picture book, I looked at the pictures again and made picture book question cards.
I gave each child two cards and asked them to write down questions that came to mind while looking at the picture book.

--- From "Chestnut Picnic" and Chestnut Spread"

After devouring avocados and growing strong, the baby chases away thieves who broke into the house, helps his mother with grocery shopping, backs up a broken-down car, and lifts up neighborhood bullies who are harassing children and throws them into a pond.
It is important to be strong, but it is noticeable that you use that strength to help the weak and punish bad people.
The children felt a sense of relief as they projected themselves onto the Hargraves' baby.
I asked the children what they would do if they were strong.
“We’re moving soon, and I want to move all the furniture quickly.”
“I’m going to use it to help my friends.”
“It’s hard for my mom to carry my younger sibling around all the time, so I want to carry her on my back.”
--- From "Baby's Strength Has Grown" and Avocado Salad

The method of writing poetry using 'found poetry' is simple but very effective.
A fourth grader chose 'sweet potato, root vegetable, sweet, summer, flower, seed, kimchi, leaf, roasted sweet potato, boiled, side dish, fried, stem' from the description of 'sweet potato' found in the encyclopedia.
Then I wrote a poem using the words I wanted.
The discovered poetry writing style allowed children to participate without any pressure and gave them the excitement and joy of seeing poems being completed spontaneously.
The class concluded by introducing the special edition of 『Sweet Potato Milk』 by the author of 『Sweet Potato Guma』 and the picture books about sweet potatoes, 『Grilled Sweet Potato Feast』 and 『Very, Very Big Sweet Potato』, to a child who loved sweet potatoes and read his poem beautifully.

--- From "Sweet Potato and Sweet Potato Coconut Balls"