Did you know? Ladybirds have poisonous knees! (poisonous to spiders, anyway)If you weighed all of the ants in the world they would weigh more than all of the humans in the world!Worms can have up to 5 hearts!Centipedes have been around for more than 400 million years, they are even older than dinosaurs! Search high and low to discover interesting facts, track down odd information and dispel myths about the insect world. A handy magnifying glass is provided to help you investigate the hidden det...
A Comprehensive Guide to Medicinal Plants and Their Uses
by Raja Sekhar
Pass on a love of gardening and nature to children with these 35 fun and rewarding outdoor and indoor projects. Gardening for Kids is full of inspirational ideas to get your kids excited about nature. Dawn Isaac shows you how to sow a wheelbarrow vegetable garden, make cress caterpillars, build an insect hotel, or plant a sunflower alley in your own backyard, using everyday objects and recycled junk. There are chapters on creative containers, from teapots to rainboots, windowsill gardening of f...
Let's Look at the Garden (First Discovery Close-up)
by Caroline Allaire and Sabine Krawczyk
An exquisite cut-paper gift book which celebrates the flowers in Shakespeare's plays and poems.This exquisite cut-paper gift book is a beautiful celebration of the many flowers that appear in Shakespeare's plays and poems. In this gorgeously illustrated three-dimensional unfolding book, which comes in a slipcase, are Shakespeare's most famous lines on flowers such as the rose, honeysuckle, violet and cowslip, and famous scenes from plays including Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night's Dream and...
The ideal gift to help kids learn brilliant new hobbies Get muddy, get green fingers and get growing! The how-to book for kids who love gardening. It's easy to understand and tells them exactly what they need to know step-by-step. Easy-peasy tips on how to grow all kinds of fruit, vegetables and herbs outside and indoorsSpace to scribble - make notes, keep track of what they have planted and make the book their ownPacked with fun gardening activities guaranteed to g...
Set in a world where plants talk, friendship is hard-won and adventure is around the bend of every river ... 'Townsend has crafted an uncannily rich and tactile atmosphere, grounding the reader in the setting so successfully that I could almost feel the river mist settling in my hair.' SARAH DRIVER 'Just finished this breathless marvel and there's so much to love about it. Wild and imaginative storytelling, it introduces us to talking o...
This book shows the reader how to grow their own strawberries and then turn them into a delicious smoothie drink.