Seed Leaf Flower Fruit by Maryjo Koch, CollinsPublishersSanFrancisco, San Francisco, CA, 1995
Facts and folklore about all kinds of plants and illustrated by the author's accurate and beautiful watercolors, this book is for the fairly advanced reader.
The Random House Book of Vegetables by Roger Phillips and Martyn Rix, Random House, New York, 1994
Descriptions and color photographs of over 650 kinds of vegetables from all around the world. Potatoes and cabbage are familiar, but do you know what skirret or lotus roots look like?
A handful of Dirt by Raymond Bial, Walker & Company, New York, 2000
A close examination of the importance of soil and the many forms of life that it supports.
Jack's Garden by Henry Cole, Greenwillow Books, New York, NY 1995
The old nursery rhyme is changed and illustrated to show the stages of planting and tending a garden and what finally grows there.
More Than Just a Vegetable Garden Photos and text by Dwight Kuhn, Silver Press, Simon & Schuster, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1990
Life among the animals and plants in a vetgetable gareden with instructions on how to start one of your own. .
In My Garden: A Counting Book by Ward Schumaker, Chronicle Books, San Francisco, CA, 2000
Counting from one watering can to twenty weepy onions and beyond.
Alison's Zinnia by Anita Lobel, Greenwillow Books, New York, NY, 1990
An alphabet book of flowers from Alison acquiring an Amarilis, to Zena zeroing in on a Zinnia for Alison.
Tulips by Emelie Tolley and Chris Mead, Clarkson Potter/Publishers, New York, NY 1998
All about tulips from 1562 before the Dutch Tulipomania to the present, including recipes, and how to make a tulip lampshade.
Grandma's Garden by Elaine Moore, pictures by Dan Andreasen, Lothrop, Lee and Shepard Books, New York, NY 1994
A nice, easy to read, story about Kim who visits her Grandma in the spring to help her plant a garden.
Round the Garden by Omri Glaser, illustrated by Byron Glaser & Sandra Higashi, Harry N. Abrams Inc. Publishers, New York, NY 1999
The water cycle in easy to read form, starting with a tear forming a puddle, evaporating to form a cloud, and ending with rain falling on a garden
The Blossom on the Bough: A Book of Trees by Anne Ophelia Dowden, Ticknor & Fields Books for Young Readers, New York, 1994
An introduction to the flowers, fruits and leaves of our countries trees, and the role of trees in the forest regions of the United States. Packed with information this book is for the fairly good reader, or a younger child with an adult to assist.
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