What will grow?

Kids books on plants.

Updated June 28, 2024
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Plants & fungi!
Boddy, Lynne
Paper Book
Explore the wonderful world of plants and fungi, with everything from cacti and carnivorous plants to trees, flowers, and mushrooms. Why are flowers colorful and fruits sweet? How does a carnivorous plant kill its prey? Why do stinging nettles sting? How do trees turn light into...
Plant a pocket of prairie
Root, Phyllis
Paper Book
Author Phyllis Root and illustrator Betsy Bowen last explored the vast, boggy peatlands of northern Minnesota in their book Big Belching Bog. Now, in Plant a Pocket of Prairie, Root and Bowen take young readers on a trip to another of Minnesota's important ecosystems: the prairie. ...
A seed grows
Portis, Antoinette
Paper Book
From a tiny seed to a huge, fold-out bloom, the transformative life cycle of a sunflower plays out in this bold read-aloud. A Sibert Honor Book! A Theodor Seuss Geisel Honor Book! To understand how a seed becomes a sunflower, you have to peek beneath the soil...
Wildflowers
Romero, Libby
Paper Book
The latest in the Ultimate Explorer line is a hands-on, fun, fact-filled guide to spotting, discovering, and identifying wildflowers in your own backyard. Go ahead--dig in--and don't be afraid to get your hands dirty! What do you call a garden filled with lots of flowers? A polli...
What's inside a flower? : and other questions about science & nature
Ignotofsky, Rachel
Paper Book
Flowers are pretty weird!
Mosco, Rosemary
Paper Book
Warning -- this book contains top-secret information about flowers! Prepare to be shocked and weirded out by this hilarious and totally true picture book introduction to some of nature's strangest plants. Flowers are beautiful. They have bright colors, soft petals and sweet...

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