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A simple description of a flowering plant's life cycle through the seasons. Dazzlingly colorful collage illustrations and a simple but dramatic text tell the fascinating story of the life cycle of a flower in terms of the adventures of a tiny seed. Carried aloft by the autumn wind, the tiny seed, along with other bigger seeds, travels far over the world. the journey is perilous: one of the bigger seeds is burned by the sun another falls into the ocean...
Author
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Award-winning artist Sylvia Long and author Dianna Hutts Aston have teamed up again to create this gorgeous and informative introduction to seeds. Poetic in voice and elegant in design, the book introduces children to a fascinating array of seed and plant facts, making it a guide that is equally at home being read on a parent's lap as in a classroom reading circle. Plus, this is the fixed format version, which looks almost identical to the print edition....
4) Big tree
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Language
English
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Description
"Sycamore seed siblings Merwin and Louise must use their wits and imaginations to navigate a mysterious and often dangerous world, filled with talking plants, monsters, meteors, and the fear of never finding the right conditions to set down roots and become big trees"--
6) The bad seed
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English
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The bad seed changes his mind about being bad and decides that he wants to be happy.
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Language
English
Description
As seen on PBS's American Spring LIVE, the award-winning author of Buzz and Feathers presents a natural and human history of seeds, the marvels of the plant kingdom
We live in a world of seeds. From our morning toast to the cotton in our clothes, they are quite literally the stuff and staff of life: supporting diets, economies, and civilizations around the globe. Just as the search for nutmeg and pepper drove the Age of Discovery, coffee beans fueled...
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
In What We Sow, Jennifer Jewell brings readers on an insightful, year-long journey exploring the outsize impact one of nature's smallest manifestations--the simple seed. She examines our skewed notions where "organic" seeds are grown and sourced, reveals how giant multinational agribusiness has refined and patented the genomes of seeds we rely on for staples like corn and soy, and highlights the efforts of activists working to regain legal access...
14) Seeds
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Explores seeds, celebrating their potential and sharing life lessons people can learn from them.
17) Seeds
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Series
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
"Simple text and photographs present the seeds of plants, how they grow, and their uses"--Provided by publisher.
18) Seeds move!
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Illustrates some of the different ways that seeds are dispersed throughout nature, from floating in water and scattering in the air, to hitching a ride on an animal's fur coat and being burrowed by ants.
20) Little Boo
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English
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A pumpkin seed tries unsuccessfully to be scary until it grows into a pumpkin and Halloween arrives.
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