When a little girl moves from her home to an apartment in the city, she takes her plants with her and one by one they grow and bloom and change both her world and the world all around her as she makes a new friend.
Wesley's garden produces a crop of huge, strange plants which provide him with clothing, shelter, food, and drink, thus helping him create his own civilization and changing his life.
The reader is encouraged to find in the illustrations a variety of plants and animals from twelve distinct habitats around the world that use their shape and color to ensure their survival.
Photographs of various plants and trees show characteristics of different leaves, seeds, and flowers and depict the cycle from fruit to seed to flower.
The scientists at the Natural History Museum are very interested in those amazing sock-eating plants ... but who would guess those crazy plants would cause a near riot at the museum--by getting in a tangle with a dinosaur.