Eileen Chevalier's Typewriter Aalphabet Botany Book: 36 Hand-Drawn Sectioned Flower Illustrations with Botany Facts (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781952704086)

Featuring accurate, highly detailed drawings of sectioned flowers, Eileen Chevalier's Typewriter Aalphabet Botany Book illustrates botanical terms and concepts for children in grades 3-8

An excellent resource for classrooms and nature lovers, The Botany Book is filled with full-color illustrations that students will enjoy examining as they learn about the complex world of plants and our human endeavors to name and classify them. Readers engage with examples of all three flower clades, exploring how their plant parts differ in appearance and number.

Each drawing is paired with a fun fact and an explanation of a specific term or concept, including leaf classification, poison and medicine, inflorescence types, and the differences between petals, sepal, and tepals. Special features include a two-page spread of Eileen's Clades Poster and reproductions of her annotated daffodil and peach prints, sectioned bulb drawings, and sectioned peach flower development illustrations.

Eileen Chevalier sliced open flowers to record the mysteries hidden within. Readers will discover:

• Detailed illustrations labeled with plant parts
• Examples of various inflorescence, leaf, and ovary types
• Four-page glossary with several illustrated definitions
• Definition, explanation, and examples of tepals
• How plants attract and deter potential pollinators

Related resources:

Videos of Eileen dissecting flowers in various stages of development

Botany Curriculum: Free Lesson videos, Color + Label Book, Teacher Guide, and Workbook