Showing results for "Plants" in Children's Audiobooks

Curious listeners want to know how things work. Easy-to-understand explanations explain how water gets to and from our homes and describes the role of the community workers who make it all possible.

A seed is like a little package—it has everything that it needs to make a new plant. Learn how tiny seeds can grow into big, leafy foliage.

Have you ever seen or felt a prickly cactus or a juicy aloe? These are just two of the amazing plants that can survive in the desert! In the study of botany, identify the different plants that thrive in hot, dry climates like deserts.

Inside every seed waits a tiny plant, ready to grow. Watch the process of a pumpkin plant from tiny seed to full-size fruit! You'll also see other plant seeds, which come in many different sizes, shapes, and colors. Some can be as big as your head, but poppy seeds are so little you can hold hundreds in one hand!

Fantastic plants cover our world. But which ones are the smelliest, thorniest, or largest? Listeners will learn all about the most extreme plants growing on our planet.

Learn how plants store food during the winter and carry water up to the leaves through roots and stems.

Plants are living things. They need certain things to grow and live. What are they? Let’s investigate what plants need to survive!

Plants make pollen so more plants can grow. The pollen needs to get from plant to plant. How does this happen? Let’s investigate pollination!

A tree and your pet look nothing alike, but they have one thing in common—they are both made up of cells. Cells are really small. You can see them only with a microscope.

Now, the choice is yours. Would you rather be covered in feathers or scales? Would you want to be an oak tree or a giant water lily? Would you choose to talk to animals or understand plants? It's your turn to pick this or that!

Humans have gone too far, wrecking planet Earth. We might need to find a new planet. But who could possibly help us do that? The AstroNuts! Lucky for us, back in the 1980s, NNASA (NotNASA) created four secret superpowered Animal Astronauts - AlphaWolf, SmartHawk, LaserShark, and StinkBug. They were built to be automatically launched into space to check out possible Goldilocks planets if things on Earth ever got too bad. Unlucky for us, things just got too bad.  

Wangari lives in the lush, green land of rural Kenya, where the soil is perfect for planting, the trees tower into the sky and the streams are full of mysterious creatures. All day, she plays beneath her favourite fig tree, and at night, she gathers around the fire with her family to listen to her mother's stories. Then Wangari grows up and goes away to school, and things start changing at home. Farmers chop down the trees. Landslides bury the stream. The soil becomes overworked and dry, and nothing will grow. People go hungry.

Go for a hike in the woods and you’re sure to see a wide range of plants. Many colorful flowers and fruits seem perfectly harmless. But don’t be fooled by these beautiful plants. Some plants eat bugs, and some are poisonous, deadly enough to sicken or even kill a person!

Every day, Coyote and Bear worked hard in their garden. They hoed the weeds and watered the ground. But Coyote wanted to make sure the best part of the crop went to him, not Bear. So he decided he would play a trick.

Learn how trees are majestic plants that come in different types, but with similarities. From broad-leaved to conifers, learn how the stem is really the tree trunk.

Curious listeners want to know how things work. Easy-to-understand text explains how electricity travels from power plants to homes and describes the role of the community workers who make it all possible.

Ann weeds and waters her garden every day, and grows a variety of different foods.

Ever hear of a fellow named Johnny Appleseed? They say he had a wolf as a pet and could heal wounds with his own two hands! But did you know that he spread apple seeds across the American frontier? Kick off your boots and listen to this fascinating story of Johnny Appleseed.

Deadly flowers. Poisonous berries. Beans that kill. They may look safe, but stay away from killer plants. Learn about some of the deadliest plants on the planet.

Click loves flowers! If he could have anything he wanted in his garden, he would choose flowers with a variety of different seeds, bulbs, leaves, and stems so he could enjoy all sorts of pretty colors and interesting plants! Did you know that orange blossoms turn into fruit, or that a pussy willow’s flowers are called a catkin? Follow along with Click and learn all sorts of cool flower stuff!