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By Rochelle Weiner
Imagine what your life would be like if you had not been born a human being, but say, an ant, a flower, a bird, a dog, a fish, or even, a gorilla! In this intelligent and appealing new book, a child takes an exciting journey through the animal and plant world and describes how life would have been very different had he or she not been born a little boy or girl.
Parents and teachers can use this beautifully illustrated book as a learning tool for the children aged 4-8 to identify many forms of life and to encourage discussion about the differences between their lives and those of animals and plants. Children will have a better understanding of the world around them and thus more fully appreciate their own precious lives.
To view several of the book's stunning illustrations, please visit the author's website, www.rochelleweinerauthor.com.
The author would love you to visit her Facebook Author and Personal pages and on Twitter@RochelleWeiner
FORMAT: Softcover
By Rochelle Weiner
Imagine what your life would be like if you had not been born a human being, but say, an ant, a flower, a bird, a dog, a fish, or even, a gorilla! In this intelligent and appealing new book, a child takes an exciting journey through the animal and plant world and describes how life would have been very different had he or she not been born a little boy or girl.
Parents and teachers can use this beautifully illustrated book as a learning tool for the children aged 4-8 to identify many forms of life and to encourage discussion about the differences between their lives and those of animals and plants. Children will have a better understanding of the world around them and thus more fully appreciate their own precious lives.
To view several of the book's stunning illustrations, please visit the author's website, www.rochelleweinerauthor.com.
The author would love you to visit her Facebook Author and Personal pages and on Twitter@RochelleWeiner
FORMAT: Hardcover
By Kevin E. Thibodeau
While marveling at Sunny´s vibrant illustrations,young readers can relate to the excitement of growing up alongside Sunny as she emerges from a tiny seed into a radiant six foot sunflower. Then, planting their very own sunflower seeds (that Sunny will send by mail)continues the story into a fun learning experience!
FORMAT: Softcover
By Kevin E. Thibodeau
While marveling at Sunny´s vibrant illustrations,young readers can relate to the excitement of growing up alongside Sunny as she emerges from a tiny seed into a radiant six foot sunflower. Then, planting their very own sunflower seeds (that Sunny will send by mail)continues the story into a fun learning experience!
FORMAT: Hardcover
By Juana A. Power
This is a story of a little Puya Raimondii seed that has consciousness and insight. She wants to know who she is and what she will become, if she makes it alive. After being trapped in a straw of grass in the Altiplano for a few weeks, she gets rescued by Celestina, a young pastorcita, (or little Shepherd), about 11 years old, who helps her to understand what she is and what she will become. Celestina resembles a pre-teen Indian country girl wearing typical clothes from the region.
The little seed, Puya for short encounters some adventures and gains much wisdom even before making it onto safe ground to start her development. Eventually, Puya spends her life spreading her wisdom to other living seeds and living creatures and becomes an inspiration to some people, like Justina’s family, for at least two generations.
Justina and her family, are knowledgeable on the fine inter-exchange between humans and their environment. They are also caring people, which gives a hopeful color to the story for people concerned about the Puya Raimondii plant and its danger of extinction.
Because the plant is native to Bolivia and Peru and I’m familiar with the territory, I wanted to give the reader a sense of what the Andes mountains, the Altiplano, the Illimani and the Bolivian culture are about. I also introduce the sound of quenas, a flute-like instrument typical of the region.
Overall, this is a story inspired by a personal call to free and empower the 40 year old sleepy writer in me. I'd chosen the Puya Raimondii character because it wasn’t until I reached the age of 37 years, (a resident of La Paz-Bolivia for 26 years), that I’d learned about this magnificent spike-like beauty that my eyes have never seen yet. However, when I’d seen a picture of it and learned about it, I was so amazed that I wanted to spread the word to many children and adults and share my amazement with all of you. The Puya Raimondii is a magnificent plant, and several parks in the USA have adopted them and are helping them to reproduce in their National Parks because this is a plant in danger of extinction. People throw stones at the mature plant, provoking the process of self-ignition before the Puya has completed its life cycle.
ABOUT THE PUYA RAIMONDII PLANT
“A most unusual plant on the Altiplano is the Puya Raimondii. In Bolivia it grows in only within a narrow range of altitude on the rocky slopes of the mountains and is the tallest flower spike in the world. Its full height is 30 feet (9.14 meters). It flowers once in its 100-year lifetime, and then dies. When in bloom, the puya has 8,000 blossoms and makes a good nesting place for birds. The stem of the dead plant is used as fuel.”
“Enchantment of the World, BOLIVIA”. By Marion Morrison. Children’s press, Chicago, 1988.
“This prehistoric survivor is one of the most dramatic plants to be found in Bolivia. It survives in small pockets in Comanche (which has the largest and healthiest population), Peru and parts of the Cordillera de Vacas. The life cycle of Puya Raimondii goes something like this: A little seed is blown from the parent plant by fierce winds that rip around the mountain. It lands in very rocky terrain, or in the cracks between rocks somewhere between 3,800 and 4,200 m (nothing else will do, this is a very fussy plant) and takes root. Over the next 100 years it slowly matures into a robust but nondescript cactus bush with a root system covering an area with a radius of at least 16 m. Then at some hidden and mysterious signal, the Puya blossoms. A huge spear of flowers is sent shooting into the air, reaching a height of 12 m in only 30 days. The flowers bloom, little birds make their nests in between the flower stalks and the plant starts secreting a highly flammable resin. Three or four months later, after the seeds have again been scattered, the plant ignites and bids farewell to this world in an incandescent blaze, leaving only a skirt of unburned leaves and perhaps a charred remnant of the once magnificent flower stalk as testimony to its passing”.
Extracted from an article of the Bolivian Times, October 1, 1988. Vol VI, # 39.
This book is dedicated to my beloved children, Jessica and Monica, especially because by having them I had the chance to reconnect with the child in me.
FORMAT: Softcover
By Elaine Johnson and Marlys Johnson
One Letter At A Time is a pictorial walk in the woods of Starved Rock State Park near Utica, Illinois. There in the trees, Mother Nature has created formations of all 26 letters, and the goal is to find them. Each letter is brought to life with poetry. A glossary identifies and defines the different types of poetry and literary elements used.
FORMAT: Softcover
By Elaine Johnson and Marlys Johnson
One Letter At A Time is a pictorial walk in the woods of Starved Rock State Park near Utica, Illinois. There in the trees, Mother Nature has created formations of all 26 letters, and the goal is to find them. Each letter is brought to life with poetry. A glossary identifies and defines the different types of poetry and literary elements used.
FORMAT: Hardcover
By Kristin Quinlan
If you've ever tried to identify plants using a typical wildflower guide, you know how frustrating and time-consuming it can be. Leafing through a book, trying to find a picture that matches your plant, is not an effective way to learn. Instead, the first thing one must do in order to identify plants is to learn to see, to learn what to look for. To see plants you must know the parts of plants, the shapes that those parts come in, and the ways that they are arranged. Identifying Plants by Family and Genus teaches, specifically, how to look at plants and how to classify them. It uses the taxonomic knowledge botanists have developed, dividing plants into families and genera that are recognized around the world, but it presents that knowledge in a simple and straightforward way than anyone can understand. In the first chapter the reader learns some of the terms that botanists use to describe plants and the parts of plants. Then about 80 of the most common families in the western United States are described, and over 400 of their most important genera. The book also includes keys - guides that assist the reader in identifying any particular plant quickly. And it is profusely illustrated with some 450 drawings. If you read this guide with care and actually use it to identify plants, you will then be able to recognize many families and genera of plants throughout the country, and even throughout the world. You will be aware of some of the differences and similarities, the complexity and the order, of the green half of nature.
FORMAT: Softcover
By Kristin Quinlan
If you've ever tried to identify plants using a typical wildflower guide, you know how frustrating and time-consuming it can be. Leafing through a book, trying to find a picture that matches your plant, is not an effective way to learn. Instead, the first thing one must do in order to identify plants is to learn to see, to learn what to look for. To see plants you must know the parts of plants, the shapes that those parts come in, and the ways that they are arranged. Identifying Plants by Family and Genus teaches, specifically, how to look at plants and how to classify them. It uses the taxonomic knowledge botanists have developed, dividing plants into families and genera that are recognized around the world, but it presents that knowledge in a simple and straightforward way than anyone can understand. In the first chapter the reader learns some of the terms that botanists use to describe plants and the parts of plants. Then about 80 of the most common families in the western United States are described, and over 400 of their most important genera. The book also includes keys - guides that assist the reader in identifying any particular plant quickly. And it is profusely illustrated with some 450 drawings. If you read this guide with care and actually use it to identify plants, you will then be able to recognize many families and genera of plants throughout the country, and even throughout the world. You will be aware of some of the differences and similarities, the complexity and the order, of the green half of nature.
FORMAT: Hardcover
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