How Plants and Trees Work

Reviewed by: Jill O'Connor - Harriet Beecher Stowe Elementary School, Brunswick, Southern Maine Library District

Review Date: January 10, 2018

Review

A fantastic read for the budding botanist or science-lover. This book, aimed at the elementary-aged reader, offers a detailed look at the format, structure, function, adaptation, and application of plants in our world. Every page is chock-full of facts and detailed illustrations showing how a plant grows, why it has the features it has, how pollinators help facilitate plant growth, and how we use plants in everyday life. The book includes pop-ups, flaps, and small, attached booklets. The binding has a lot of air and will be susceptible to tears and crushing. And the pop-ups may not make it through too many circulations - the page with the pop-out tree has some difficult flaps, especially for less-dextrous fingers. But it would make an excellent classroom book or could be used in a school library center where the books don't go home. It has a message of conservation and a plea to readers to pay attention to the plants around us and to treat our world as kindly as possible. Readers can look at this book over and over and find new information each time. A lovely effort, but not a particulary library-friendly product.

Overall Book Score: very good