Children Plant

More of us are turning to plant-focused diets for our health and the health of the environment. But there haven't been reliable, evidence-based resources out there for a new generation of compassionate, conscientious parents - until now. The Plant-Based Baby and Toddler is your go-to resource, offering easy-to-digest nutritional facts and guidelines that aren't available elsewhere, with a special focus on the most important period of a child's life when it comes to developing good eating habits: infancy and toddlerhood.

Leading toddler expert Dr Tovah P. Klein reveals why ages two to five years is the most crucial time for a child's brain development and how parents can harness this period to have a lifelong positive effect on their children's lives. Based on extensive research with toddlers, How Toddlers Thrive explains what is happening in children's brains and bodies at this age that makes their behaviour so turbulent and why your reaction to their behaviour - the way you speak to, speak about and act towards your toddler - holds the key to a successful tomorrow and a happier today.

Learn about growing a garden.

Wangari lives in the lush, green land of rural Kenya, where the soil is perfect for planting, the trees tower into the sky and the streams are full of mysterious creatures. All day, she plays beneath her favourite fig tree, and at night, she gathers around the fire with her family to listen to her mother's stories. Then Wangari grows up and goes away to school, and things start changing at home. Farmers chop down the trees. Landslides bury the stream. The soil becomes overworked and dry, and nothing will grow. People go hungry.

A seed is like a little package—it has everything that it needs to make a new plant. Learn how tiny seeds can grow into big, leafy foliage.

Curious listeners want to know how things work. Easy-to-understand text explains how electricity travels from power plants to homes and describes the role of the community workers who make it all possible.

With three hearts and blue blood, its gelatinous body unconstrained by jointed limbs or gravity, the octopus seems to be an alien, an inhabitant of another world. It’s baggy, boneless body sprouts eight arms covered with thousands of suckers—suckers that can taste as well as feel. The octopus also has the powers of a superhero: it can shape-shift, change color, squirt ink, pour itself through the tiniest of openings, or jet away through the sea faster than a swimmer can follow.

The Lost Words stands against the disappearance of wild childhood. It is a joyful celebration - in art and word - of nearby nature and its wonders. With acrostic spell-poems by award-winning writer Robert Macfarlane and illustrations by Jackie Morris, this enchanting book evokes the irreplaceable magic of language and nature for all ages. Across a rich and vivid natural soundscape, Edith Bowman, Guy Garvey, Cerys Matthews and Benjamin Zephaniah, iconic voices of modern Britain, bring the magic of nature and language to listeners.

The globetrotting naturalists of the 18th century were the geeks of their day: innovators and explorers who lived at the intersection of science and commerce. Foremost among them was Carl Linnaeus, a radical thinker who revolutionized biology. In What Linnaeus Saw, Karen Magnuson Beil chronicles Linnaeus's life and career in readable, relatable prose.

Beatrix Potter's Gardening Life is the first work to explore the origins of Beatrix Potter's love of gardening and plants and show how this passion came to be reflected in her work.

Learn how plants store food during the winter and carry water up to the leaves through roots and stems.

Have you ever seen or felt a prickly cactus or a juicy aloe? These are just two of the amazing plants that can survive in the desert! In the study of botany, identify the different plants that thrive in hot, dry climates like deserts.

Learn how trees are majestic plants that come in different types, but with similarities. From broad-leaved to conifers, learn how the stem is really the tree trunk.

Fantastic plants cover our world. But which ones are the smelliest, thorniest, or largest? Listeners will learn all about the most extreme plants growing on our planet.

Go for a hike in the woods and you’re sure to see a wide range of plants. Many colorful flowers and fruits seem perfectly harmless. But don’t be fooled by these beautiful plants. Some plants eat bugs, and some are poisonous, deadly enough to sicken or even kill a person!

Ann weeds and waters her garden every day, and grows a variety of different foods.

Deadly flowers. Poisonous berries. Beans that kill. They may look safe, but stay away from killer plants. Learn about some of the deadliest plants on the planet.

Ever hear of a fellow named Johnny Appleseed? They say he had a wolf as a pet and could heal wounds with his own two hands! But did you know that he spread apple seeds across the American frontier? Kick off your boots and listen to this fascinating story of Johnny Appleseed.

Curious listeners want to know how things work. Easy-to-understand explanations explain how water gets to and from our homes and describes the role of the community workers who make it all possible.

A tree and your pet look nothing alike, but they have one thing in common—they are both made up of cells. Cells are really small. You can see them only with a microscope.