Got some very nice naturalist/nature books newly in to the library and wanted to show them off for our parents: all of them got checked out afterwards by storytimers!
Out of School and Into Nature: the Anna Comstock Story
Suzanne Slade, illustrated by Jessica Lanan
ISBN: 9781585369867
Biography of famous early American naturalist and scientist Anna Comstock, and her crusade to learn more about the natural world, and to share it with students in the most inspiring and personal ways possible. A BIT pedantic at times, but overall very nicely presented. The illustrations and text effects are very attractively done.
Fantastic Flowers
Susan Stockdale
ISBN: 9781561459520
Such a clever and cute nonfiction book! Very light on the text, but takes longer to read because the kids were really interested and invested in the concepts. Stockdale takes a whole lot of plants with evocative names, and illustrates them in a way that really foregrounds the name-sake. The pictures are beautiful and vibrant and enormous, and there are actual photographs of the flowers at the end of the book. Really well done.
Lola Plants a Garden
Anna McQuinn, illustrated by Rosalind Beardshaw
ISBN: 9781580896948
I love Lola and her little brother, and the stories Anna tells about them are just perfect. This time Lola is inspired by the Mary Mary Quite Contrary nursery rhyme, and uses that as the basis for her own flower garden that she designs and implements step by step with Mommy and Daddy (using resource books from the library, of course!) and then celebrates with friends and garden veggies.
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