PICTURE BOOKS THAT FOCUS ON
PLANTS OR GARDENING

PLANTING A RAINBOW, by Lois Ehlert, tells how a child and his mother plant flowers from bulbs, seeds, and seedlings, and care for their garden. The story line is in giant print at the top of each brightly illustrated page. In smaller print Ehlert labels each flower. At the end the flowers are arranged by color on pages that are cut back enough to show all the rainbow colors together. A great book for teaching both the names of colors and flowers to preschoolers. Primaries will enjoy trying to read it. 6.00, paper.

THE CARROT SEED, by Ruth Kraus, illustrated by Crocket Johnson. A little boy knows the carrot seed he planted will grow into a carrot -- no matter what his family thinks. A very small book with only 101 words and very large print. This book is as much about a small boy's faith as it is about gardening. For preschoolers, 4.95 in paper or as a board book. Specify your choice.

FROM SEED TO PLANT. Gail Gibbons' bright, bold, simple pictorial explanations show the process of a plant's growth from seed to sprout, to mature plant. 6.95, paper. For ages 3-8.

GARDEN ALPHABET, by I. Wilner, illustrated by A. Wolff. Lively watercolors and lilting couplets follow a canine gardener and friend through the alphabet as they plan, plant, nurture, and finally harvest a bountiful garden. . Ages 3-8.Out of print. Not available.

GROWING COLORS. Bruce McMillan takes his camera into the garden to photograph some of the gorgeous colors nature grows. Stunning life-size pictures of fruits and vegetables, with a color index at the back for review. Ages 3-8, paper, 4.95.

GROWING VEGETABLE SOUP, by Lois Ehlert. This book's giant print, bright, bold, colorful illustrations, and simple sentences make it the perfect introduction to gardening for a young child. Every noun from shovel to squash blossom to sun is labeled to help increase vocabulary. The orderly progression of actions from getting the tools laid out to eating the soup lays the foundations for sequencing exercises. The recipe for the soup is on the back cover for Mom. Great tie-in with units on where foods come from. paper, 6.00. Ages 3-8.

Miss Rumphius by Barbara Cooney. Penguin Picture Puffin, 1985. Great-Aunt Alice Rumphius, when she was but a girl, told her artist grandfather that when she grew up she would go  to faraway places as he had, and that she, too, would live by the sea, as he did, when she became old. But he tells her there is a third thing she must do -- make the world more beautiful. It became one of her goals, but she wasn't sure how she would do it. But when she did get old and settled down in that house by the sea, she got her idea, with a bit of help from the wind. She would plant lupines everywhere she could. As Johnny Appleseed sowed apple seeds, she sowed the seeds of lupine flowers, and in her town she become known as the Lupine Lady. BTH-2629. $6.29-D Featured in the Five in a Row Unit Study Curriculum.

Sunflower House by Eve Bunting. Illustrated by Kathryn  Hewitt. Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1996. Watch the children plant a sunflower house from the seeds sown in a circle. They grow tall as they are watered and then the flowers appear in all their beauty. And the children play inside what has become a house, a castle, a cage, and a place to sleep out in. Until summer is over and the flowers fade and the stalks fall down and the children can't fix them. But still there's something more the flowers can give when their lovely petals have fallen -- wonderful seeds for next year's house, and enough to share with the birds. BTH-2656. $5.40-D
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Prices of books above are subject to change at any time,
but they will almost always be 10% off the current publisher's list price.

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