Plant-and-Grow Project Bk [Hardcover]

Inc. Sterling Publishing Co. (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 31, 1993 | Age Level: 9 and up

This activities guide introduces plants to budding gardeners. Each experiment is marked with one, two or three green fingers to indicate the degree of difficulty. Each of these experiments can be carried out on the kitchen table.

Editorial Reviews

From Booklist

Ages 4-8. First published in Denmark, this book sometimes sounds a bit odd, "Fill the container with water when you can see it has dwindled," and decidedly optimistic: "They [bean sprouts] taste so good they can be eaten as candy." Still, parents and teachers of preschool and primary-grade children will find it an attractive source of ideas for unusual indoor plants. Each project is explained in one or two pages that feature full-color photographs and drawings as well as explanatory text and captions. Ideas include planting scarlet runner beans in a cucumber, getting vegetable tops to sprout in dishes, making bottle gardens, and growing cotton, corn, eggplant, and wheat plants as well as orange, chestnut, mimosa, banana, and eucalyptus trees. A source for seeds would have been a helpful addition for the more exotic entries, but many of the plants can be grown from fruits and seeds readily available in grocery stores and nurseries. Carolyn Phelan

Language Notes

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Danish

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 9 and up
  
• Hardcover: 48 pages
• Publisher: Sterling (December 31, 1993)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0806904569
• ISBN-13: 978-0806904566
• Product Dimensions: 11.2 x 8 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,034,453 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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