flowers

Provides instructions in the techniques of forcing more than eighty flower varieties to bloom out of season.

Brief text and lavish illustrations explain plant reproduction and the purpose of a flower and present some plants which don't seem to be flowers but are.

The author has illustrated her own poems featuring fairies and flowers and the summer.

A possessive butterfly chases all other creatures away from a bright, beautiful flower--until the end of the day, when the flower speaks up for itself.

Color illustrations and brief text introduce 12 common flowers.

Peque?o Topo follows his destiny, as revealed in a Dream-Vision, of becoming an artist for his people and eventually is able to bring the colors of the sunset down to the earth.

Presents in question and answer format information about how all kinds of plants live, breathe, and reproduce. An activities section is included.

All plants need water, especially big and beautiful sunflowers, but what happens when one particular sunflower doesn't get the water it needs.

Examines clues about the evolution of flowers, traveling to the Hengduan Mountains of China, where a flower fossil from the age of the dinosaurs has been discovered and where many popular plants, including rhododendrons, primroses, and clematis, originated.

A cautionary tale about nuclear war that revolves around a Bolivian girl named Paola and the legend describing the origins of her country's beloved tricolored flower, the kantuta.