This gorgeous book from award-winning artist Sylvia Long and author Dianna Hutts Aston offers children a beautiful and informative look at the intricate, complex, and often surprising world of seeds. Poetic in voice and elegant in design, the book introduces children to a fascinating array of seed and plant facts, making it perfect reading material at home or in the classroom.

From flowers to fruits, everything begins with a tiny seed. Young readers will learn how seeds grow, and how they vary in shape, size, and dispersal patterns. From cherry pits to exploding pods, to sticktight seeds that cling to your shoes, acclaimed photographer and author Ken Robbins illuminates how wondrous nature springs up throughout the year before our very eyes.

Achieve greater control of your produce and flowers, higher yields, and greatest satisfaction from your garden each season as you shape your crops with Starting & Saving Seeds. When it comes to starting and saving seeds, other books tend to focus on one or the other. But with Starting & Saving Seeds, you will get full coverage of both saving and starting your seeds, so that you finish right where you began at the start of the season. Along the way,...

"What is inside a seed? How does it all work? Why do some seeds, pods, and fruits have such strange shapes? The answers to these and many more questions can be found in the pages of Seeing Seeds. Robert Llewellyn's stunning photographs and Teri Dunn Chace's illuminating essays open up a world of beauty and fascinating information that will forever change the way you look at these small miracles of nature."--COVER.

"An educational picture book about the life cycle of a sunflower"--

Provides an illustrated description of seed dispersal by which plants, most specifically fruits, travel from one place to another.

"Presents information about seeds, including where they come from, how they grow, and how they travel"--Provided by publisher.

"Filled with advice for the home gardener and the more seasoned horticulturist alike, The Seed Garden: The Art and Practice of Seed Saving provides straightforward instruction on collecting and saving seed from your favorite heirloom and open-pollinated plants. Seed Savers Exchange and the Organic Seed Alliance bring together decades of knowledge to demystify the time honored tradition of saving seeds using lush photographs, clear instructions, and...

Brief text and illustrations tell the story of a boy, a rabbit, and a seed.