Everything Grows

Raffi Songs to Read

by Raffi Cavoukian, Niña Mata (Illustrator)

Raffi's beloved song celebrating the earth is available for the first time in a board book edition that readers will treasure as they grow.

From children to animals, from leaves on a tree to fish in the sea, everything grows. Raffi's popular and catchy song encourages kids to take in the world around them and appreciate the way everything is growing together. Lush illustrations by Nina Mata show families interacting with a community garden and marveling at the interconnectedness of the earth in this timely and timeless song and story.

The addition of Raffi's voice to the American political landscape is actually invaluable -- the singer-songwriter is the premier emissary for children and his positions carry with them an incredible weight.--New York Magazine

Genres: Picture Books, Childrens, Juvenile, Gardening, Food, Family, Music

32 pages, Board book

First published August 26, 1989

About the author

also known as Raffi

Reviews

[Natalie · Rating 4 out of 5]

We are still humming this one... library book and CD but Raffi rocks out baby.

[Kristen · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5/5 ⭐️. The illustrations were excellent! I appreciated showing interracial families. I know this is based on a song, but for me it was overly-repetitive, even for a children’s book.

[Melissa Swistek · Rating 4 out of 5]

Raffi has my heart

[Damaris delossantos · Rating 5 out of 5]

When I was a little girl I used to read this book to my little sister and my brother too.

[Capn · Rating 1 out of 5]

Love Raffi. Not my favourite song of his, and it's way too repetitive to be used as a picture book (if the repetition theme had been utilized - maybe showing a sunflower or bean stalk growing incrementally each time, for example), that might have been okay. But no.

Art is very cute. But I find it almost unreadable. Really the antithesis of Baby Beluga, which seems to apply itself beautifully.

[Andrés · Rating 4 out of 5]

I think these are some of the best illustrations I have seen depicting inner emotional lives. They are sweet and nuanced and show a range of emotions! I think I would enjoy the book even more if I knew the melody of the song before reading it. "What a Wonderful World," for example, begs to be sung, and I think this book would have bigger impact if I knew "Everything Grows." I guess I need to learn it!

[Jared White · Rating 4 out of 5]

I have to admit, though I am a YS librarian and know of Raffi, I am not familiar with this song but it makes a fun text and the pictures are adorable. I love that the parents are an interracial couple and that the family is making a trip to a farmer's market. This is a perfect spring or summer book. Maybe someday I'll learn the song so I can sing it rather than read it.

[Crystal Smith · Rating 5 out of 5]

I chose this book because when I read the title and seen the cover page i thought that it would be a book about growing vegetables but as i read the book i seen that this is a fun simple book that can be used as a science lesson about living things. It teaches young readers about how everything that has life grows.

[Kat · Rating 4 out of 5]

Love illustrations, biracial family in garden

Not as catchy song as others
If read instead sing may be boring from repetitive chorus
Focus on mother, father, sister, brother (not all kids have siblings though)

Learn that all living things grow

[Madison · Rating 4 out of 5]

I loved looking at the pictures with Momma!

[Joel · Rating 5 out of 5]

These illustrated books of Raffi’s songs are just wonderful. Great messages and this one has really fun art of farms and growing vegetables

[Deanna · Rating 4 out of 5]

Beautiful illustrations with lots of representation by a wide variety of folx, a very cute board book with simplistic melody to the words. Sweet addition for a baby or toddlers library

[Lisa Medeiros · Rating 5 out of 5]

I like that he included the music at the end of the book. The second time reading through I played the song on YouTube and pointed out the words to baby as we went along.

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