Lois Brandt Philips is an American poet, playwright, and author of over 50 books for children and adults. The poem Meadow Surprises describes walking softly through the velvet grass of a meadow and listening to the sound of a brook, suggesting that paying attention allows one to discover the hidden surprises a meadow contains. Key terms such as meadow, surprise, velvet, and brook are defined in a glossary.

2. MEADOW SURPRISES
LOIS BRANDT PHILIPS

3. LOIS BRANDT PHILIPS

4. LOIS BRANDT PHILIPS
 Born:- June 15, 1942
 He is an American poet, playwright, editor, and author of
children's stories.
 He has authored or co-authored around fifty books for
children and adults.
 Some of his works are The Bus to the Moon and Other
Stories, R.I.P.: A Poetic Sequence, The Krazy Cat Rag etc.

5. MEADOW SURPRISES
Meadows have surprises,
You can find them if you look;
Walk softly through the velvet grass,
And listen by the brook.

6. If one pays attention, a meadow
has several surprises to offer. It
is a great pleasure to walk
through the velvet grass and
hear the sound of the brook.

7. GLOSSARY
Meadow : A piece of land covered with grass
Surprise: Something unexpected
Velvet : Very smooth fabric
Brook : A body of running water smaller than a
river

8. QUESTIONS
What surprises do the meadows have
to offer you?
Find out the adjective used for grass?

9. ANSWERS
Meadows have too many surprises to
offer like pleasure of the sound of brook
and the feeling of soft velvet grass.
The word velvet is used as the adjective
for grass.

10. Choose the correct image of BROOK
from the following images:

11. Write a short note about
NATURE.

12. THANK YOU