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| View Larger Image | The Reason for a Flower (World of Nature)
by Ruth Heller
| | List Price: | $6.99 |  | | Available: | Usually ships in 24 hours | | | | | Sales Rank: | 42786 | | Studio: | Putnam Juvenile | | | Binding: | Paperback | | Reading Level: | Ages 4-8 | | Number Of Pages: | 48 | | Publication Date: | February 15, 1999 | | Publisher: | Putnam Juvenile |
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EDITORIAL REVIEWS |
Book Description
The reason for a flower is to manufacture seeds, but Ruth Heller shares a lot more about parts of plants and their functions in her trademark rhythmic style. "[An] extravagantly beautiful creation. It is unusual in its ingenious way of teaching botany and interesting words to the littlest of readers." -- Publishers Weekly "Ms. Heller's colors and drawings are as electrifying as ever." -- Los Angeles Times |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.5 based on 6 reviews)
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Birds and Bees-Beautifully! 
Having purchased this book to use in teaching a class to small shildren, I am always delighted to see just how much excellent info and clear pictures are included in such a pleasant and appealing style-a poem musically winds through the book, holding the attention of the younger child to gently plant the seeds of information in their fertile little heads!
May 05, 2008 | |
exceptional ........
Exceptional illustratiions open up the beauty of nature to young readers. The flower seems to bloom before your very eyes......
August 21, 2006 | |
Great pacing....mostly accurate 
Ruth Heller writes a compelling and entertaining story. The illustrations are great and the pacing of the book is engaging. However, as a scientist and informal science educator, I was disappointed by a few inaccuracies in the text that could be easily corrected if a new edition of this book were published. First, an anther is part of the stamen and rests on the filament (in the book she writes " From an anther on a stamen"). Second, fungi are no longer considered a type of plant. Minus these two things this book is a great teaching tool which I've used with many students to discuss floral anatomy and plant life cycles. I've sidestepped the inaccuracies by using it as an opportunity to discuss with students the importance of using multiple literature sources when studying a topic.
August 02, 2005 | |
Beautiful and educational! I was fascinated!
I love this book! The text is fun to read and really easy to understand while introducing some big scientific words. And the pictures are big and colorful, and I really mean BIG and COLORFUL. But even more than that, they are accurate--the flowers, seeds, animals, and insects can all be identified down to the species. Towards the end it gets a little off topic, but even these pages are filled with interesting flower-facts that get you interested in further exploration of the world of flowers. There's even a touch of humor: after pages of large, flamboyant illustrations, the final page contains a single mushroom and the text, "Plants that have no flowers are fascinating, too." I had to laugh at the simplicity and effectiveness of this ending. Last, but not least, the endpapers have a wonderful drawing that shows a flower progressing into a fruit--a wonderful summary of the purpose of the book without using any words. This book definitely gets my recommendation for anyone who wants to introduce their kids to the world of science and nature in an unintimidating, yet accurate and enjoyable format.
August 17, 2002 | |
Why We Have Flowers?
Children are constantly asking questions and sometimes they come up with a question you have difficulty answering, such as "why do we have flowers?". This book answers that question in a way that is both fascinating and entertaining for both children and adults. The illustrations in this book were quite lovely and almost tell a story themselves. The rhythmic cadence of the words introduces children to a biological vocabulary without being overwhelming, describes the different parts of the plants, explains the process of pollination, and illustrates what value plants have beyond just "something pretty to look." This book is a great book for teachers of young children for science related curriculm.
April 12, 2002 | |
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