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Nature - Flowers Genre

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Books in the Nature - Flowers genre:

And So My Garden Grows (1969)

A collection of nursery rhymes that tell the tale of two children as they wander through towns and palaces of nineteenth-century Italy.

Author(s): Peter Spier
Illustrator(s): Peter Spier

Miss Jaster’s Garden (1971)

Hedgie the hedgehog and Miss Jaster share the garden of Villa Pax.

Author(s): N. M. Bodecker
Illustrator(s): N. M. Bodecker

For Lovers of Flowers & Gardens (1978)

Drawings accompany selections from Edward Lear’s letters and diaries.

Author(s): Edward Lear
Illustrator(s): Edward Lear

The Illuminated Language of Flowers (1978)

New text to the original illustrations by Kate Greenaway.

Author(s): Jean Marsh
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Illustrator(s): Kate Greenaway

Woodland Crossings (1978)

Five short fables or stories about the natural world.

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Author(s): Stephen Krensky
Illustrator(s): Jan Brett

The Secret Clocks, Time Senses of Living Things (1979)

How do we know when to wake up? How do flowers know when to bloom? This book explores the biorhythms of living things. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Author(s): Seymour Simon
Illustrator(s): Jan Brett

Food Market (1981)

Sally accompanies her mother and the baby to the grocery store.

Author(s): Peter Spier
Illustrator(s): Peter Spier

The Mouldy (1983)

When the mouldy invades the great garden of the world, the Princess Talitha sets out to defeat him, but the hedgehog wins him. Read online at archive.org.  ... View More

Author(s): William Mayne
Illustrator(s): Nicola Bayley

Some Plants Have Funny Names (1983)

Twelve plants are illustrated and the author explains how they got their common names.

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Author(s): Diana Harding Cross
Illustrator(s): Jan Brett

Wild Wild Sunflower Child Anna (1987)

Anna explores the garden and plays in the pond with the frogs.

Author(s): Nancy White Carlstrom
Illustrator(s): Jerry Pinkney

Anno’s Faces (1989)

With the see-through plastic cards, you can make illustrations of familiar fruits and vegetables smile and frown. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Author(s): Mitsumasa Anno
Illustrator(s): Mitsumasa Anno

Old Mother West Wind (1990)

Stories of the inhabitants of the green meadows, woods and streams.

Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Thornton W. Burgess
Illustrator(s): Michael Hague

June 29, 1999 (1992)

When third grader Holly Evans sent her portable gardens into the ionosphere the results are amazing, stupendous, gigantic! Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Author(s): David Wiesner
Illustrator(s): David Wiesner

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