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Discover a jungle of repulsive plants in this gross guide! Learn about a flower that smells like rotting meat, a plant that swallows bugs, leaves that make you itch, and more.

Thornton Burgess wrote the Burgess Flower Book for children to instill a love of flowers in young children. Burgess uses one of his favorite characters, Peter Rabbit, to search for flowers. The story begins in early spring as Peter discovers the first blooms. Peter's search for flowers continues all summer and into the fall. Along the way, Burgess characters, including the Merry Little Breezes, Grandfather Frog, and others, help Peter find new flowers as they bloom. The description of the flowers is very detailed.

Leaves use sunlight to make energy, and when the sun fades, leaves burst into color.

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

Learn how plants grow using their roots and sunlight.

Learn about the role of flowers in pollination and spreading plant growth in this walk through how pollen works.

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.

What can smell like bubblegum, glow neon green at night, be poisonous and yet still eaten by humans, and even help create rain? The answer is mushrooms! From their hidden networks underground to the fruiting body above, mushrooms can do incredible things. But don't call them plants - mushrooms are fungi. They're more closely related to animals like you!

What do plants eat? Why do some plants have flowers and others don’t? And what’s the tallest plant out there? Ada Twist, Scientist: The Why Files is the perfect nonfiction resource for all these questions and more. Based on the bestselling series and the new Netflix show, this new nonfiction series is perfect for the youngest scientists of tomorrow as they learn along with Ada.

Learn about growing a garden.

Discover the plants and animals living in a tree....

Learn about how tomatoes grow on vines.

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.

Learn how carrots grow underground.

Während Neo im Park bunte Eichhörnchen beobachtet, staunt Esme über die Spinne am Fenster. Und Marie nascht mit Oma ganz viele Beeren - direkt aus dem Garten. Ein erstes Hörbuch mit elf liebevollen Geschichten über unsere Natur, wie sie von Kleinkindern wahrgenommen wird, lädt zum Entdecken der eigenen Umwelt ein. Ergänzt wird die Produktion mit Liedern rund um das Thema Natur und Draußensein.

Brought to you by Puffin. This is our Green Planet: a hidden world where plants care for other plants and can smell, taste, touch, hear and even . . . 'talk'. Earth is dominated by plants, which outweigh all other life - from tiny duckweed floating in our ponds to giant sequoia trees towering...

From the creator of the New York Times bestseller Women in Science, comes a new nonfiction picture book series ready to grow young scientists by nurturing their curiosity about the natural world--starting with what's inside a flower. Budding backyard scientists can start exploring their world...

Дорогие родители и педагоги, приглашаем вас и ваших юных воспитанников на захватывающую экскурсию в мир природы! Детям интересно всё, что их окружает. И в числе самых занимательных и загадочных окружений - природа с её многочисленными красотами.

Seed Babies piques the child's interest about how seeds grow. It provides interesting information about seeds in a conversational style between two brothers and the various seeds they encounter. These seeds offer grammatical advice, chastises poor reasoning, provide enlightening information, and will often encourage the boys to go and discover answers to their questions themselves.

Science writer and plant expert Rebecca E. Hirsch presents fun and gross facts about a variety of plants along with explaining the science behind why they do what they do. Featured plants include the Venus flytrap, an African tree that houses stinking ants to protect itself from hungry animals, a "vampire vine" that sucks nutrients from other plants, and fiendishly invasive kudzu.