This educational and enjoyable book helps children understand how to plant bulbs, seeds, and seedlings, and nurture their growth. Lois Ehlert's bold collage illustrations include six pages of staggered width, presenting all the flowers of each color of the rainbow.

Count down from ten as a boy gathers flowers for a bouquet for his mother. A young boy picks different bouquets of flowers for his mother, counting down the number of flowers in each, from ten to one.

A variety of flowers grows near the hollyhocks that give shade to the bee that sleeps on the only rose in a garden.

The residents of North Skettykolk are no match for a visiting mountain goat with an enormous appetite for flowers.

Nancy Drew sets out to investigate when the Pink Princess daisies she and her friends have grown disappear right before the spring flower show.

Returning to the Realm, Jessie searches for the flower needed to combat a plague of mischief-causing Peskies.

Corina's Abuela helps her select flowers that mean something to Corina from the garden for her Mexican flower crown that she will wear on her birthday, and explains the symbolic meaning of a birthday crown.

"Every spring, Pinkalicious loves to see all of the beautiful flowers and blossoming trees come to life in her family's garden. Of course, Pinkalicious knows that the blooming garden is all because of the hard work of the fairies! This year, Pinkalicious wants to be ready for the fairies' arrival, so she makes a cozy house for the fairies to stay in during their visit. Peter and Pinkalicious camp out in the backyard, waiting for the fairies to appear...

"In Pianos and Flowers we are invited, through the medium of sepia images, to glimpse a world long departed. In these stories, inspired by long-lost photographs, the lives of the people in the frame are imagined and then explored, layer by layer. What must it have been like to be them? We hold our breath for them. Our heart beats faster for them. We look again at the photograph in a new light, and say Yes, it might have happened just like that. This...