Central Kansas Library System

Focusing on the human relationship with plants, the author of Second nature uses botany to explore four basic human desires, sweetness, beauty, intoxication, and control, through portraits of four plants that embody them, the apple, tulip, marijuana, and potato. Every school child learns about the mutually beneficial dance of honeybees and flowers; the bee collects nectar and pollen to make honey and, in the process, spreads the flowers' genes far...

Simple text and illustrations relate the unusual adventures of an apple.

Describes how apples grow, fron a shoot to a mature tree that produces apples in a apple orchard.

A visit to an apple orchard where children see where apples grow and help pick them.

A simple introduction to the life cycle of a red delicious apple, from the blossoming of a flower bud in the spring through the development and ripening of the fruit to its harvesting in the fall.

Describes life on an apple farm, including harvesting the fruit, self-picking, and bringing the apples to market.

Introduces the tree as "the biggest plant that grows" and explains the life cycle of an apple tree.

A child learns a lesson from eating a wormy and rotten apple.