Flowers

Description

Nonfiction superstar Gail Gibbons on flowers and pollination! Gail Gibbons has covered seeds, farming, vegetables, and fruits-and now it's time for flowers! This lush introduction to the basics and life cycle of flowers-including common regional species, flowers' habitable range, basic flower care and cultivation, and flower anatomy and pollination-is gorgeously illustrated and clearly presented. After reading Flowers, kids will have a new appreciation for the beautiful blossoms around us!

According to The Washington Post, Gail Gibbons "has taught more preschoolers and early readers about the world than any other children's writer-illustrator." The multi award-winning Ms. Gibbons is the author of more than 100 books for young readers, including the bestselling titles From Seed to Plant and Monarch Butterfly. Her many honors include the Regina Medal, the Washington Post/Children's Book Guild Nonfiction Award and the NSTA Outstanding Science Trade Book Award.

"With more than 170 published titles to her name, Gibbons is one of children's nonfiction's most prolific author/illustrators. In her latest, she artfully details the parts of flowers for young readers. Almost every page is covered in an efflorescence of multiple colors. Similar to From Seed to Plant, yet so much more informative and visually provocative, Gibbons displays the variety of colors, shapes, seeds, climates, environments, and necessary visitors (insects) that the accompany the subject. Ending with a signature trivia page, this work includes info on which flowers have been assigned to specific birthday months and other interesting facts. . . . A good choice for elementary nonfiction collections."-School Library Journal "Jam-packed with illustrations rendered in black ink, watercolor, and colored pencil and extensively labeled . . . a visual feast."-Booklist