tulips

Famous for his pranks, Pierre has never dared to play a trick on his Grand Ma Mere, whose tulips grace one of the loveliest gardens in Paris; but one day, Pierre does dare.

Simple text and color illustrations describe the features of tulips, the changes that occur during growth, and the consumption of tulips by animals. Presented in English and Spanish.

A fictionalized account of how a Dutch merchant brought tulip bulbs from Persia to Holland where they became immensely popular.

A story about a girl who watches a tulip bulb develop teaches young readers about tulips.

A basic overview of the life cycle of a tulip.

While Violet is taking an art class in Holland, her friend's father turns up missing. His disappearance is linked to a mysterious black tulip.

A little girl seeks to regain her father's attention during the tulipomania craze in seventeenth-century Holland.

Presents an introduction to tulips, in simple text with illustrations, describing their various parts and how they are planted and grown.

While trying to help her financially destitute family, twelve-year-old Leyla ends up on a slave ship bound for Istanbul, then in the beautiful Topkapi Palace, where she discovers that life in the sheltered world of the palace harem follows its own rigid rules and rhythms and offers her unexpected opportunities during Turkey's brief Tulip Period of the 1720's.

Anna, a young girl living in Holland in 1626, at the height of tulip mania, is given the gift of eight beautiful tulips by her father and wisely trades them for livestock, furniture, and a valuable painting.