Grow

By Riz Reyes, Sara Boccaccini Meadows (illustrator),

Book cover of Grow: A Family Guide to Plants and How to Grow Them

Book description

Discover facts about 15 plants, explore what makes them unique, and learn how to grow them

Grow beauty. Grow friendship. Grow flavor. Grow plants!

Discover 15 plants with incredible powers, then learn how to grow them. Meet each plant’s surprising relations (did you know the tasty tomato is a cousin…

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1 author picked Grow as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

If you want to save the natural world, you have to love it first. And to love it, you have to know it. This gorgeously illustrated picture book is an important introduction. Grow encourages readers to be friends with fifteen common plants—from mint to orchids. Once recognized, and by learning a fascinating bit about them, these plants are no longer strangers, but companions. And that’s the beginning of love. The delightful drawings and fabulous plant factoids call for a read-aloud to younger children, or simply hand the book over to those already reading. This is an act of legacy—we need…

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