• Welcome
    • The digitizing project
    • What was Childcraft?
      • Organization of Childcraft
      • Getting to know Childcraft
      • Introducing Childcraft in the home
    • Reading to your Child
  • The Books
    • 1 – Once Upon a Time
      • Nursery Rhymes
      • Stories & Poems
      • Folk & Fairy Tales
      • Favorite Fables
      • Things to Know
    • 2 – Time to Read
    • 3 – Stories and Poems
      • Stories
      • Poems
    • 4 – World and Space
      • Our Home, the Earth
      • Oceans, Lakes, and Rivers
      • Air, Wind, Clouds, and Weather
      • Mountains, Valleys, and Plains
      • Planets, Stars, and Galaxies
      • Rocks, Stones, and Petrified Bones
    • 5 – About Animals
      • The Animal Kingdom
      • It’s a Mammal
      • It’s a Bird
      • It’s a Fish
      • It’s a Reptile
      • It’s an Amphibian
      • Many-Legged Creatures
      • Animal Ways
      • The Animals’ World
      • The World of the Sea
      • Staying Alive
      • Living Together
      • Animals of Long Ago
      • Vanishing Animals
      • Domestic Animals
      • People and Animals
    • 6 – The Green Kingdom
      • Seasons of Life
      • Plant Ways
      • Nature’s Neighbors
      • Strange and Surprising Plants
      • How Does Your Garden Grow?
      • Famous Gardens
      • Meet the Trees
      • Plants of Long Ago
      • People and Plants
      • Saving the Plants
      • True Tales and Tall Tales
      • Look for a Lovely Thing
    • 7 – Story of the Sea
      • Animals of the sea
      • Water world
      • Fish
      • Birds
      • Coelenterates
      • Crustaceans
      • Echinoderms
      • Mammals
      • Reptiles
      • Mollusks
      • Sponges, sea squirts, and worms
      • Strange stories of the sea
      • Might and majesty of the sea
      • People and the sea
      • People who work on the sea
    • 8 – About Us
      • Brothers and Sisters, Moms and Dads
      • Fingers and Forks
      • How Do You Know?
      • Let’s Go to My House
      • Living in Two Worlds
    • 9 – Holidays and Birthdays
      • Holiday Time
      • January
      • February
      • March
      • April
      • May
      • June
      • July
      • August
      • September
      • October
      • November
      • December
    • 10 – Places to Know
      • Oh! And ah! Places
      • Queer, Quaint, And Curious Places
      • Seven Wonders Of The Ancient World
      • Treasure Places
      • What’s In A Name?
      • All That’s Left
      • As Good As Old
      • Just For Fun
      • Where Animals Are Famous
      • Where Battles Were Fought
      • Where Land And Water Meet
      • Where Nature Gets In The Way
      • Where People Worship
      • Where They Run A Country
    • 11 – Make and Do
      • Nature Crafts
      • Paint and Print
      • Papier-Mache
      • Puppets and Plays
      • Sew and Stitch
      • Gifts to Give
      • Hook, Weave, Knot, and Braid
      • Let’s Dress Up
      • Let’s Play Games
      • Let’s Play with Clay
    • 12 – How Things Work
      • What’s the Matter?
      • Currents and Sparks
      • Full of Energy
      • Hear All About It
      • Hot and Cold
      • Let’s Get Moving
      • Machines Make It Easy
      • More Things That Work
      • Seeing the Light
    • 13 – Mathemagic
      • How long, how fast, how hot, how heavy?
      • People who work with numbers and shapes
      • Points, lines, shapes, and designs
      • Puzzle fun!
      • What are your chances?
      • What can you do with numbers?
    • 14 – About Me
      • Becoming Me
      • I Speak, I Listen
      • I Wonder, I Think
      • Inside and Outside of Me
      • The Many Me’s
      • There’s Nobody Exactly Like Me
      • Watch Me Grow
      • What Does Me Mean to Me?
      • What I Can Do
    • 15 – Guide to Childcraft
      • The New Baby: Birth to 18 months
      • The Toddler: 18 months to 3 years
      • The Preschooler: 3 to 5 years
      • The School-Age Child: 5 to 8 years
      • The Preteen: 8 to 13 years
      • Health and safety
      • For Special Consideration
      • Medical Guide
  • Random Post
  • Contact
  • Welcome
    • The digitizing project
    • What was Childcraft?
      • Organization of Childcraft
      • Getting to know Childcraft
      • Introducing Childcraft in the home
    • Reading to your Child
  • The Books
    • 1 – Once Upon a Time
      • Nursery Rhymes
      • Stories & Poems
      • Folk & Fairy Tales
      • Favorite Fables
      • Things to Know
    • 2 – Time to Read
    • 3 – Stories and Poems
      • Stories
      • Poems
    • 4 – World and Space
      • Our Home, the Earth
      • Oceans, Lakes, and Rivers
      • Air, Wind, Clouds, and Weather
      • Mountains, Valleys, and Plains
      • Planets, Stars, and Galaxies
      • Rocks, Stones, and Petrified Bones
    • 5 – About Animals
      • The Animal Kingdom
      • It’s a Mammal
      • It’s a Bird
      • It’s a Fish
      • It’s a Reptile
      • It’s an Amphibian
      • Many-Legged Creatures
      • Animal Ways
      • The Animals’ World
      • The World of the Sea
      • Staying Alive
      • Living Together
      • Animals of Long Ago
      • Vanishing Animals
      • Domestic Animals
      • People and Animals
    • 6 – The Green Kingdom
      • Seasons of Life
      • Plant Ways
      • Nature’s Neighbors
      • Strange and Surprising Plants
      • How Does Your Garden Grow?
      • Famous Gardens
      • Meet the Trees
      • Plants of Long Ago
      • People and Plants
      • Saving the Plants
      • True Tales and Tall Tales
      • Look for a Lovely Thing
    • 7 – Story of the Sea
      • Animals of the sea
      • Water world
      • Fish
      • Birds
      • Coelenterates
      • Crustaceans
      • Echinoderms
      • Mammals
      • Reptiles
      • Mollusks
      • Sponges, sea squirts, and worms
      • Strange stories of the sea
      • Might and majesty of the sea
      • People and the sea
      • People who work on the sea
    • 8 – About Us
      • Brothers and Sisters, Moms and Dads
      • Fingers and Forks
      • How Do You Know?
      • Let’s Go to My House
      • Living in Two Worlds
    • 9 – Holidays and Birthdays
      • Holiday Time
      • January
      • February
      • March
      • April
      • May
      • June
      • July
      • August
      • September
      • October
      • November
      • December
    • 10 – Places to Know
      • Oh! And ah! Places
      • Queer, Quaint, And Curious Places
      • Seven Wonders Of The Ancient World
      • Treasure Places
      • What’s In A Name?
      • All That’s Left
      • As Good As Old
      • Just For Fun
      • Where Animals Are Famous
      • Where Battles Were Fought
      • Where Land And Water Meet
      • Where Nature Gets In The Way
      • Where People Worship
      • Where They Run A Country
    • 11 – Make and Do
      • Nature Crafts
      • Paint and Print
      • Papier-Mache
      • Puppets and Plays
      • Sew and Stitch
      • Gifts to Give
      • Hook, Weave, Knot, and Braid
      • Let’s Dress Up
      • Let’s Play Games
      • Let’s Play with Clay
    • 12 – How Things Work
      • What’s the Matter?
      • Currents and Sparks
      • Full of Energy
      • Hear All About It
      • Hot and Cold
      • Let’s Get Moving
      • Machines Make It Easy
      • More Things That Work
      • Seeing the Light
    • 13 – Mathemagic
      • How long, how fast, how hot, how heavy?
      • People who work with numbers and shapes
      • Points, lines, shapes, and designs
      • Puzzle fun!
      • What are your chances?
      • What can you do with numbers?
    • 14 – About Me
      • Becoming Me
      • I Speak, I Listen
      • I Wonder, I Think
      • Inside and Outside of Me
      • The Many Me’s
      • There’s Nobody Exactly Like Me
      • Watch Me Grow
      • What Does Me Mean to Me?
      • What I Can Do
    • 15 – Guide to Childcraft
      • The New Baby: Birth to 18 months
      • The Toddler: 18 months to 3 years
      • The Preschooler: 3 to 5 years
      • The School-Age Child: 5 to 8 years
      • The Preteen: 8 to 13 years
      • Health and safety
      • For Special Consideration
      • Medical Guide
  • Random Post
  • Contact
Look for a Lovely Thing, The Green Kingdom

Books to Read

If you enjoy learning about plants, you'll find many interesting books about them. The books listed here are only a sampling. Your school or public library will have more. Ages 5 to 8 Between...

Manuel
December 10, 2023December 10, 2023
Look for a Lovely Thing, The Green Kingdom

Look for a Lovely Thing

All around you, the beauty of the green kingdom fills the world. Meadows in spring are carpets of green and gold and pink. Deserts are splashed with bright blossoms after rain. Woods glow^7^ w^7^ith...

Manuel
December 10, 2023December 10, 2023

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