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Curious George Scavenger Hunt
by H. A. Rey
Curious George is looking for something fun to do, so the man with the yellow hat has an idea--a scavenger hunt! George sets off at once. Find out what exciting surprise awaits George when he finds everything on his list. As George ventures from place to place he doesn't always find the items on his list on his first try. But with patience, persistence, and the help of friends and neighbors along the way, George continues on his fun search through the neighborhood.
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We Found a Seed
by Rob Ramsden
Rob Ramsden's playful and poignant picture book introduces children to the rewards of working with nature and discovering the cycle of life--
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How to Say Hello to a Worm: A First Guide to Outside
by Kari Percival
The beautiful simplicity of a garden is depicted through digital woodcut illustrations and engaging nonfiction text presented as a series of sweet questions and gentle replies. Less of a traditional how-to and more of a how-to-appreciate, this soothingly sparse text paints an inviting and accessible picture of what a garden offers. And with an all-child cast, the absence of an adult presence empowers readers to view the garden and its creatures through their own eyes, driven by curiosity and wonder--
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How Does a Seed Sprout?: And Other Questions about Plants
by Melissa Stewart
What is a seed and will all of them eventually become plants? What happens to plants in winter? Why do leaves come in so many sizes and shapes? Do insects help plants, or harm them? A virtual garden of information grows here for young readers to enjoy.
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Worm Makes a Sandwich
by Brianne Farley
Worm sets out to make a sandwich, but first must compost food scraps into soil to plant a seed in to grow the vegetables to put into the sandwich. Includes backmatter on composting.
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Flowers for Mama
by Deborah Freedman
Deborah Freedman is back with a heartwarming picture book on patience and love, perfect for Mother's Day! For Mama's special day, the kittens decide to gift her all sorts of flowers. Some are drawn and stamped. Others stitched and sung. Oleander, though, plants a seed in hopes of gifting her a real flower. But as Mama's special day approaches, Oleander's flower still hasn't blossomed. Will he have a gift in time? Flowers for Mama shows us many ways art can be made and how, with a little patience and a lot of love, very different flowers can all come together to form a whole garden, just for Mama.
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Maybe You Might
by Imogen Foxell
They said I couldn't change the world; it wasn't worth the fight. But in my head, a small voice said...maybe you might. A young girl makes a choice to plant a seed by a long dead riverbed. Little does she know that from this single, small act, a vibrant ecosystem will grow. This inspiring poem - bursting with hope for a greener world - is a love letter to our ailing planet.
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Caterpillar and Bean: A First Science Storybook
by Martin Jenkins
Observe the ways plants and insects interact in a gentle introduction to growing for budding scientists. What's that wedged in a crack in the ground, small and hard and wrinkly and brown? A bean seed! Soon it develops roots and leaves. And what's that on the leaf? An egg! The egg hatches a caterpillar, and the caterpillar eats the leaves, getting bigger and bigger until it forms a chrysalis. Meanwhile, the plant is growing, too: it develops flowers, then bean pods, as it reaches up toward the sun. Side by side, plant and insect grow . . . and grow . . . and grow throughout the year, until they come full circle.
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The Carrot Seed
by Ruth Krauss Krauss
A little boy just knows that a carrot will grow from the seed that he plants--whatever his family may believe--in this brief (101 words) classic story of childhood faith rewarded.
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The Seeds of Friendship
by Michael Foreman
Adam, an immigrant boy in a big city, is lonely until he see snow for the first time and starts to play with the neighborhood children. When he starts school, he gets some seeds and begins to plant them with help from his new friends.
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A Seed Grows
by Antoinette Portis
An educational picture book about the life cycle of a sunflower--
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The Wall and the Wild
by Christina Dendy
An exploration of the healing power of gardens and the importance of a healthy ecosystem
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The Seed of Compassion: Lessons from the Life and Teachings of His Holiness the Dalai Lama
by His Holiness the Dalai Lama
His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, one of the world's most prominent leaders, was once a child from a typical farming family in Tibet. Under the big open sky, surrounded by tall mountains and clear streams, his mother was the first to show him what compassion looked like. In everyday moments from His Holiness's childhood, young readers begin to see that important lessons are all around us and that they too can grow to understand them.--Jacket flap.
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The whole world inside Nan's soup
by Hunter Liguore
"There's something special bubbling in Nanni's big metal pot. And it smells delicious! What ingredients might be inside? When Nanni lifts the lid on her soup, she reveals the whole world inside: from the seeds that grew into vegetables, to the gardeners who lovingly tended to the plants, to the sun, moon, and stars that shone its light above them. And, of course, no meal is complete without a recipe passed down generations of family, topped and finished with Nanni's love"
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Plants Feed Me
by Lizzy Rockwell
A highly regarded author-illustrator of nonfiction for young children has created a science book about the parts of plants that humans find yummy.
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Planting Hope
by Frederick Joseph
A child discovers a secret ingredient for nurturing plants--and for helping ailing loved ones, too--in this tender story by a two-time New York Times best-selling author celebrating the power of hope. Everyone in Henry's family loves plants and gardening. So why can he never get his little plant to grow, no matter how hard he tries? His mom has been able to grow anything since she was young, and even cultivated a whole orchard to help feed people who were hungry. Henry imagines his mother as a great tree, with branches wrapping around the whole community. People and seeds have a lot in common, his mom likes to say. If you want them to grow strong, nourishment and sunlight aren't enough--they also need hope. When Henry's mom becomes sick and it looks like she may not recover, this belief that she's sown in her son becomes key to what happens next. Frederick Joseph, award-winning author of The Black Friend, offers a bighearted story about keeping hope alive in the face of grief--and a gentle allegory with an upbeat message about healing a fragile planet.
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The garden we share
by Zoë Tucker
In this moving story about gardening, seasons and treasured memories, a young girl and an elderly woman become friends as they plant seeds in a community garden until the last leaves fall and everything is different.
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Oscar's Tower of Flowers
by Lauren Tobia
Oscar's mom has to go away for a little while, so Oscar is staying with his nana. He likes being with Nana in her apartment building, but he still misses his mom. One day, Nana has an idea, and together they carefully sow seeds--lots and lots of seeds! They water them and wait . . . and then the seeds start to grow and the flowers begin to bloom and there are plants everywhere. Luckily Oscar has a great idea for what they can do with the blossoms--share them! This brightly illustrated wordless picture book is full of graphic panels and sweeping spreads that evoke the urban bustle of a busy high-rise apartment and shows how each person can contribute to the spirit and vitality of a community.--Provided by publisher.
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What Will Grow?
by Jennifer Ward
From the team behind the gorgeous What Will Hatch? comes a jacketed companion book, all about seeds and the plants that grow from them--and featuring four pull-out gatefolds.
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Thea's Tree
by Alison Jackson
Thea's science project grows unusually tall in this funny twist on the classic Jack fairy tale. Thea decides to plant some old bean seeds and watch them grow as her science project. And grow they do?into a giant beanstalk. Savvy young readers will recognize elements from the classic Jack fairy tale, such as a harp and golden egg, but the haughty grown-ups that Thea writes to for help do not. Thea receives letters and comical advice from a plethora of dim experts, ranging from botanist to symphony conductor to zoologist. Thea's Tree playfully combines curriculum areas, including science, language arts, and storytelling into a clever tale kids will love.
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Beansprout
by Sarah Lynne Reul
A child plants a mystery seed for a class project and is disappointed when nothing sprouts, but rescues the remaining seeds and decides to plant them.
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Seeds of Change: Planting a Path to Peace
by Jen Cullerton Johnson
A biography of Kenyan Nobel Peace Prize winner and environmentalist Wangari Maathai, a female scientist who made a stand in the face of opposition to women's rights and her own Greenbelt Movement, an effort to restore Kenya's ecosystem by planting millions of trees.
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Seeds of Discovery: How Barbara McClintock Used Corn and Curiosity to Solve a Science Mystery and Win a Nobel Prize
by Lori Alexander
The quirky and singular Nobel Prize winner Barbara McClintock, a founder of modern genetics who did things her own way, is honored in this lively young STEM biography by Sibert Honor winner Lori Alexander. Celebrating the power of curiosity and the rewards of tenacity, this engaging biography introduces young readers to the field of genetics. As a rare female botanist in early twentieth-century America, Barbara McClintock never let other people's notions of what was proper slow her down. When she faced doubting colleagues and unsupportive institutions, she drove across the United States, climbed through windows, and even slept in her laboratory to conduct her research. In so doing, she helped pave the way for future scientific discoveries that can cure diseases and save lives--and won a Nobel Prize in the process .
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Let's Go Nuts!: Seeds We Eat
by April Pulley Sayre
This seed-themed companion to Rah, Rah, Radishes! and Go, Go, Grapes! proves that healthy eating can be both fun and delicious! What do nuts, beans, grains, and even some spices have in common? They're all seeds--seeds we can eat! So get ready to greet lentils and limas, take a crack at coconuts and cashews, and say hi to rye and buckwheat. You'll soon be seeing seeds in a whole new way! This seedy celebration comes complete with an author's note full of fascinating facts about seeds, including a section about nut allergies and how to help nut-sensitive friends and classmates stay safe and healthy.
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Scholastic BookFlix
Video storybooks that are paired with nonfiction ebooks designed for preschool through 3rd grade. Collection includes book sin English and Spanish. Free for CBCPL patrons! |
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