Plants And Their Children PDF Download

This book comes to perform much the same office with younger children that Miss Morley's "Flowers and their Friends," and Kate Brown's "The Plant Baby and Its Friends," do for pupils who are more advanced. The author of "A Plant Baby" had therefore special difficulties, but they are well met. The language of the book is commendably simple, though the simplicity is not maintained to the avoidance of a few technical terms which, as experience verifies, are readily used and understood by children of six or seven years of age. In_ less than twenty of the short chapters we have the history of a plant's growth and development from germ to flowering maturity-from seed to seed in fact -simply and skillfully told. Other science stories in prose and verse of useful, beautiful and curious plants, fill the remainder of the volume. For the teacher's help there are brief special notes, besides the general suggestiveness of the text and the careful illustrations. From the preface we quote one valuable sentence which ought to be repeated in all the reading books which treat of Natural History. "It is earnestly urged that so far as possible the work of observation be carried out with the specimens in hand before the reading is attempted, so that the book may become the confirmation of the child's original research." -Kindergarten Review, Volume 8