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Plants / Trees

BOOK LIST (to print) -- PLANTS / TREES
PICTURE BOOKS
BH  2-78   Spring Songs from the Bible
BH  2-223   The Sugar-Plum Tree
BH  3-128   Rosy Posy (poem)
BH  3-146   The Shaking of the Pear Tree (poem)
♦   $   ​​A Treasury of Flower Fairies by Cicely Mary Barker
$   ​A Tree Is Nice by Janice Udry
"The Caldecott award-winning book that speaks simply and elegantly of the many pleasures a tree provide."
♦   $   ​Alison's Zinnias by Anita Lobel
"An unusual alphabet book incorporates reinforcement of individual letters into a dazzling display of floral painting as Lobel links girls' names, flowers, and verbs in a chain of floral gifts."
♦   $   ​Blueberries for Sal by Robert McCloskey
"Kuplink, kuplank, kuplunk! Sal and her mother a picking blueberries to can for the winter. But when Sal wanders to the other side of Blueberry Hill, she discovers a mama bear preparing for her own long winter.  Meanwhile Sal's mother is being followed by a small bear with a big appetite for berries! Will each mother go home with the right little one?"
♥   Flower Children  by Elizabeth Gordon (1910)
Charming picture book of verses and drawings of flowers as children.
♦   Flower Fairies of the Garden by Cicely Mary Barker 
♦   Flower Fairies of the Trees by Cicely Mary Barker
♦   $   ​Forest of Dreams by Rosemary Wells, ill. by Susan Jeffers
The thawing of a forest and the return to spring.
♥   $   ​Miss Rumphius by Barbara Cooney
"Barbara Cooney's story of Alice Rumphius, who longed to travel the world, live in a house by the sea, and do something to make the world more beautiful, has a timeless quality that resonates with each new generation. The countless lupines that bloom along the coast of Maine are the legacy of the real Miss Rumphius, the Lupine Lady, who scattered lupine seeds everywhere she went."
$   ​Over Under in the Garden  by Pat Schories
"The wonderful world of the garden and the alphabet are brought together in an alphabet book that combines informative facts on plants and animals in an A-to-Z presentation, enhanced by richly detailed paintings."
♦   $   ​The Carrot Seed by Ruth Knauss
"When a little boy plants a carrot seed, everyone tells him it won't grow. But when you are very young, there are some things that you just know, and the little boy knows that one day a carrot will come up. So he waters his seed, and pulls the weeds, and he waits..."
$   ​The Flower Hunter by Deborah Kogan Ray
"Of John Bartram's nine children, it is William who best loves nature and wants to follow in his father's footsteps. William dreams of accompanying his father as he explores the wilderness of colonial America as botanist to the King of England in search of plant specimens."
$   ​The Gift of the Tree by Alvin Tresselt
"The role of an oak tree in the cycle of nature is revealed as an ancient tree, even as it dies and returns to the earth, provides nourishment for new life all around it."
♦   $   ​The Giving Tree  by Shel Silverstein
'Once there was a tree...and she loved a little boy.'  Every day the boy would come to the tree to eat her apples, swing from her branches, or slide down her trunk...and the tree was happy. But as the boy grew older he began to want more from the tree, and the tree gave and gave and gave.
♦   $   ​The Rose in My Garden by Anita Lobel
"Start with a single rose. Add hollyhocks and marigold, sunflowers and zinnias. Voilà!A quiet, tranquil, beautiful garden grows before your eyes. But who's that hiding in the corner?"
♦   $   ​The Tale of the Three Trees  by Angela Hunt
Traditional folktale tells the Easter story from a unique perspective.
$   ​The Trellis and the Seed: For all ages by Jan Karon
 "In a picturesque and secluded garden, a tiny seed sits in thrilled anticipation of its destiny as a powerful vine, twisting and flowering through the white latticework trellis. But how could such a small seed ever thrive and grow into a strong, healthy, grown-up plant? "Don't worry," Mother Earth says. "God has planned something beautiful for you." But time passes, and the little seed doesn't believe it. Beautifully illustrated and filled with faith and love."
♥   ​Wild Flower Children  by Elizabeth Gordon
INTRODUCTORY
FC   N4   Stories of Plants and Trees
​BH   3-104   A Quick-Running Squash
JC   6-133   Stories for Arbor Day
​♥   Flowers and Their Friends by Margaret Morley (1897)
Stories of individual flowers.
♦   ​In Woods and Fields by Margaret Waring Buck
♦   $   ​Linnea in Monet's Garden by Christina Bjork
"Linnea has been in Paris. And she has visited the painter Claude Monet's garden! She even stood on the same little Japanese bridge that Monet painted so often in his pictures. In Paris, Linnea got to see many of the real paintings. 
Now she can understand what it means to be called an Impressionist, and she knows a lot about Monet's life in the pink house where he lived with his eight children."

♥   Nature’s Stories for Young Readers: Plant Life  by Florence Bass (1892)
A reader in plant life for beginning readers.
♥   Plants and their Children  by Frances Parsons (1896)
♦   Pond and Marsh Plants by Olive Earle
♦   State Trees by Olive Earle
♥   The Burgess Flower Book for Children  by Thornton Burgess (1923)
♦   The Rose Family by Olive Earle
♥   The Secret Garden  by Frances Hodgson Burnett
♥   The Story of the Forest by John Dorrance (1916)
♦   The Strangler Fig and Other Strange Plants by Olive Earle
♥   The Study of Trees in Our Primary Schools by Clarence Weed (1907)
Ideas for the study of trees.
♥   The Wonder Garden by Frances Olcott (1919)
Nature Myths and Tales from the World Over
♦   Weeds by Dorothy Childs Hogner
INTERMEDIATE
FC   Eyes and No Eyes
FC   The Whole Year Round
♥   A Bunch of Wildflowers for the Children by Ida Whitcomb (1894)
♥   The Garden of Earth  by Agnes Giberne (1921)
♥   ​Trees That Every Child Should Know by Julia Rogers (1909
ADVANCED
♥   A Guide to the Trees by Alice Lounsberry (1900)
Detailed study of trees
♥   Myths and Legends of Flowers, Trees, Fruits and Plants by C. M. Skinner (1911)
♥   The Apple Tree by Liberty Bailey (1922)
For older readers.
♥   The Handbook of Nature Study by Anna Botsford Comstock (1911)

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