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April Showers and May Flowers
April Showers, Spring Flowers
Picture Books in Both English and Spanish/Libros ilustrados en ingles y español
April Showers, Spring Flowers
Picture Books in Both English and Spanish/Libros ilustrados en ingles y español
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A simple description of a flowering plant's life cycle through the seasons. Dazzlingly colorful collage illustrations and a simple but dramatic text tell the fascinating story of the life cycle of a flower in terms of the adventures of a tiny seed. Carried aloft by the autumn wind, the tiny seed, along with other bigger seeds, travels far over the world. the journey is perilous: one of the bigger seeds is burned by the sun another falls into the ocean...
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Buzz About Bees- Pollinator Program
Early Reader Books in English and Spanish/Libros "Reader" para lectores principiantes en ingles y español
Early Reader Books in English and Spanish/Libros "Reader" para lectores principiantes en ingles y español
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Introduces a plant's life cycle, explaining how seeds grow into flowers and trees.
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Learn the secrets of plant lifecycles, using four common (but very different) plants. Simple text and colorful illustrations show the major phases of plant growth: seed, plant, flower, and fruit. Back matter offers more information on each plant, as well as on each stage of growth.
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Imagine if plants had superhero qualities. According to Spike E. Prickles, a TV personality who happens to be a cactus, plants have plenty of awesome abilities, and his houseplant fans agree. From protecting themselves from forest fires and voracious leaf-eating insects to surviving in hostile environments that are numbingly cold or stiflingly hot, Spike highlights the impressive range of adaptations plants have developed.
12) Bloom
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The first book in a can't-put-it-down, can't-read-it-fast-enough action-thriller trilogy that's part Hatchet, part Little Shop of Horrors! The invasion begins--but not as you'd expect. It begins with rain. Rain that carries seeds. Seeds that sprout--overnight, everywhere. These new plants take over crop fields, twine up houses, burrow below streets. They bloom--and release toxic pollens. They bloom--and form venus-fly-trap like pods that swallow animals...
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"Sunlight, air, water, and minerals help keep plants alive. But do you know how much water is needed for a seed to sprout? Or what a plant will do to find the light it needs? Let's experiment to find out! Simple step-by-step instructions help readers explore key science concepts"--Provided by the publisher.
15) Bloom boom!
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Photo illustrations capture a boom of blooming flowers in the springtime.
17) Poop fountain!
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Three friends spend Christmas day breaking into the town of Crickenburg's antiquated sewage treatment plant in order to witness with their own eyes the soon-to-be-replaced "poop fountain."
18) Du iz tak?
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Readers are invited to imagine the dramatic possibilities to be found in the natural world, even the humblest back garden! With exquisitely-detailed illustration that will appeal to children and art-lovers alike, and a wonderfully playful invented language, we soon find ourselves speaking "Bug" ... Du iz tak? What is that?
20) Hungry plants
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Describes the structure and behavior of various carnivorous plants, including the Venus fly trap, sundew, pitcher plant, and bladderwort.