Follows a seed from the time it is planted until it grows into a beautiful flower.

Spring rains change Water from a tumbling creek to a roaring river and bring Tree nutrients it needs to stretch toward the sky. As Sun's rays intensify, the sprouts and fruits and insects of the forest grow and bloom and develop, all working together in harmony. Even Fire, whose work causes Tree to ache from the inside, brings opportunity for the next generation of flora and fauna. Paired with the vivid, organic imagery of Dominique Ramsey, Liz Garton...

Develops reading skills through games and a fictional story about a group of students who plant and tend a garden, with the help of their teacher, and finally have a big feast with all the food they have grown.

A little girl and her friends--a small bird and a cat--plant a seed and watch it grow.

A wonderful cycle of giving begins when a single seed is planted and the sprouts are passed along from one person to the next. An entire community is touched. Includes vocabulary.

Du iz tak? What is that? As a tiny shoot unfurls, two damselflies peer at it in wonder. When the plant grows taller and sprouts leaves, some young beetles arrive to gander, and soon--with the help of a pill bug named Icky--they wrangle a ladder and build a tree fort. But this is the wild world, after all, and something horrible is waiting to swoop down--booby voobeck!--only to be carried off in turn. Su! With exquisitely detailed illustrations and...

"Au soir de sa vie, un vieil homme lègue deux graines à ses fils : à l'aîné, une graine de fougère ; au cadet, une graine de bambou. "Plantez-les dans la forêt en souvenir de moi". Si la fougère recouvre vite le sol, rien ne pousse de la graine de bambou, au grand désespoir du plus jeune des frères..." -- "Near the end his life, an old man bequeaths two seeds to his sons: to the older one, a fern seed; to the younger one, a bamboo seed....