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...
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...
What you can do to help
> planting trees You can help save the green kingdom by planting new plants where they are needed. These children are planting healthy young trees on the grounds of their school. collecting...
Fire!
The forest rangers are worried. The weather is hot and there has been no rain for a long time. They know the forest is as dry as sawdust. It would take only a tiny spark to turn the whole forest into...
The most dangerous enemies
mine or national park? > From open-pit mines such as the one in the top picture, we get a useful and important metal---copper. But this kind of mine destroys both land and plants. The bottom...
The enemy in the air
Imagine a world that is plain, even ugly ---a world without beauty. Imagine a world in which most of the trees are dead. Many other plants are small and twisted. Leaves and flowers are spotted with...
Insect enemies
Suppose you could make yourself as tiny as an insect. Then, suppose you sat on a leaf in a garden and were very still. You would probably hear a munching, crunching noise all around you. For, all...
Deadly enemies
> smut on corn Smut is a tiny plant called a fungus. Many of these plants sometimes grow on corn and make it rot and die. Some deadly enemies of plants lurk in the green kingdom! They are tiny...
Saving the Plants
Conservation means "saving things that come from nature" --- air, soil, water, animals, and plants. Plants might not seem to need care, but they do. Plants can get sick, just as people can. Insects...
The flower that nearly ruined a country
Imagine paying thousands of dollars for a flower that hasn't even grown yet! That's what many people did about 300 years ago in the Netherlands. Tulips were new to the country, which was called...
