Second in the 'Yates Gardening For Kids' series - another bright, attractive and easy-to-follow introductory guide to gardening for children. The emphasis this time is on growing food, and introducing basic information about growing common garden fruits and vegetables.
Topic areas include:
- Buried treasure - food under the ground
- Crunchy food - stalks
- Munchy food - leaves
- Juicy food - fruit
- Fruit that grows on the ground
- Fruit that grows on trees and bushes
- Eating flowers
- Eating seeds
- Effect of climate and protecting plants
- How to read a seed packet
- Making new plants without seeds
- Strange plant foods
Once again Janice Marriott's clear and simple text is accompanied by Elena Petrov's colour illustrations and diagrams, along with activities, puzzles, games, experiments, handy hints and jokes.
