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Children's Nonfiction Flowers & Plants

Starting with Nature Plant Book

by (author) Pamela Hickman

illustrated by Heather Collins

Publisher
Kids Can Press
Initial publish date
Feb 2000
Category
Flowers & Plants
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781550748123
    Publish Date
    Feb 2000
    List Price
    $6.95
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9781550744835
    Publish Date
    Feb 2000
    List Price
    $14.95

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Recommended Age, Grade, and Reading Levels

  • Age: 7 to 18
  • Grade: 2 to 12

Description

The United States is home to many kinds of plants -- tiny wildflowers, giant sunflowers and everything in between. The Starting with Nature Plant Book contains detailed illustrations, fascinating facts, projects and activities that tell kids how to recognize common poisonous plants, how a seed turns into a plant, what plants need to grow and much more.

About the authors

PAMELA HICKMAN is the author of over forty non-fiction books for children, including winners of the Green Prize for Sustainable Literature, the Best Book Award from the Society of School Librarians International and the Canadian Authors Association Lilla Sterling Memorial Award. She co-authored the first book in this series, Righting Canada's Wrongs: Japanese Canadian Internment in the Second World War. She lives in Canning, Nova Scotia.

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Heather Collins brings Come Sit By Me alive with the colourful illustration style for which she has become known. Her popular children's picture book credits include Whoosh I Hear a Sound!, The Bare Naked and A Pioneer Story: The Daily Life of a Canadian Family in 1840 for which She won both the Information Book Award and the Ruth Schwartz Children's Book Award. When she's not illustrating in her attic studio in Toronto, Heather can be found spending time with her two children and her husband.

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