Sunflower Days

Some things take a long time.

A child plants one sunflower seed. Then waits. Watches. Waits some more.

This is a quiet picture book about the kind of growing that nobody can see at first. Day by slow day, a small seed becomes a tall flower, and a child learns that waiting is its own kind of growing.

For children aged 4 to 9, for the ones whose minds move quickly and need a slow, kind story to come home to.

Sunflower Days follows a sunflower's life cycle from seed to bloom to seed again, with hand-painted watercolour illustrations and short, observational prose. Real botanical detail. No moralising. The kind of book that earns the calm corner, the bedtime read, the windowsill.

Inside:

• A gentle, repeatable read-aloud, roughly four to five minutes from start to finish
• Sage and warm-sand watercolour illustrations on every spread
• A short "How a Sunflower Grows" page at the back with four real facts about heliotropism, germination, and how many seeds a single sunflower can hold

Sunflower Days was inspired by Tommy, age six, who wanted to know how sunflowers grow. It is the first book from Willow & Wave Studio, a small, family-run publishing house that makes books that are quiet, considered, and properly made.

Quiet things, well made.