"A seed, you see, is one of the few living things sent into the world by its parents to grow wherever the winds blow it; or birds carry it; the soil will receive it; the sun will warm it and water will feed it. Yet birth for a seed is very much like birth for other living things. The seed in this story was born very small, weak, and unprotected, but most of all the Seed wondered who and what it will be."--Back cover