The Sun Seed

The Sun Seed

“Early one spring morning, a little seed woke up after her long winter sleep. She yawned and stretched. With a loud CRACK her hard brown jacket fell away. ‘Oh!’ said the surprised seed. The earth above felt warm.”

… this was just the beginning of big changes to come.

The colorful illustrations in this book are made by the author from dyed wool fibers, felted together to create a solid piece of “fabric.” She employed a technique known as “dry,” or “needle,” felting, which requires a small hand tool called a felting needle with barbs along the shaft to catch the fibers as it pierces the surface of the wool and binds them together. Jan describes the experience as “painting with a needle.”

About the Author

Jan Schubert has been a Waldorf early childhood educator for more than twenty years. In a one-room-school house on sixty acres in northern California, she founded and operated a preschool program. She holds a BA in ECE and has taught kindergarten at the Davis Waldorf School (Davis, California), where she currently teaches preschool. Jan also worked in a Lifeways program. She has a lifelong love of handwork and textiles, which is expressed in her visual storytelling and puppetry.