Includes index.

In rhyming text and illustrations explores some of the many things a leaf can be, from tree topper to rain stopper. Includes facts about leaves and a glossary.

A seed, afraid but bored in the dark soil, decides to put out one little root, then one little shoot, before learning that there are plenty of friends around for encouragement.

Katherine Whiteside conveys a plant's charms; by doing so she encourages us to know and then grow the best of the old garden flowers...I can confidently recommend this book. A perfect marriage of illuminating text and handsome photographs, celebrating the flowers that our great-grandparents knew and loved and those that we will surely wish to hand down to our grandchildren. Antique Flowers combines the whimsical with the factual, history with practical...