It is the flowers' nighttime . . . In many parts of the world it is winter, and the ground lies cold and hard beneath snow and frost. The sleeping trees are brown and bare. The dry, dead stems of...
The Green Kingdom
In this book, readers learn about flowers, trees, and odd plants; plants of long ago; how plants live and grow; gardens; how plants and people affect each other; tales and true stories about plants.
Why animals live where they do
You eat bacon and cereal for breakfast. A bear eats fish and berries. Some kinds of animals eat only food from plants. Some kinds eat only other animals. Some animals eat both kinds of food. But each...
Plants and animals need each other
Plants and animals trade with each other. They trade for things they both need to stay alive. Animals breathe air. The air gets changed inside their bodies. When they breathe the air out again...
Living Together
> A monarch butterfly caterpillar can live wherever there are milkweed > plants. Everywhere in the world, different kinds of plants and animals live together. Some animals eat plants they live...
The pasture of the sea
Billions and billions of tiny plants and animals live in the ocean. Most of them are so small they can be seen only with a microscope. These tiny plants aren't like plants you have seen. Some look...
Fish food
Nearly everything that lives in the water is food for a hungry fish. In the ocean, most fish eat only other fish. Ocean cod, hake, tarpon, and tuna dine on smaller herrings, sardines, and...
Animals eat
> Earthworm > > An earthworm makes tunnels in the ground by eating through the dirt. > It feeds on bits of plants and leaves in the dirt. > Alfalfa Butterfly > > A butterfly's proboscis is like...
Plant or animal?
Is this a flower eating a fish? No, this is an animal called a sea anemone eating a fish. Do you know the best way to tell the difference between a plant and an animal? You can't always tell by...
Learning about prehistoric life
Scaly dinosaurs and flying reptiles disappeared from the earth about sixty-five million years ago---long before there were people. Yet there are pictures of these animals in books. How do we know...