Jessica Roux
Author
Publisher
Andrews McMeel Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
A charming, gorgeously illustrated botanical encyclopedia for your favorite romantic, local witch, bride-to-be, or green-thumbed friend. The Language of Flowers is a full-color guidebook to the historical uses and secret meanings behind an impressive array of flowers and herbs. The book explores the coded significances associated with various blooms, from flowers for a lover to flowers for an enemy. The language of flowers was historically used as...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Over the last half-billion years, there have been five mass extinctions, when the diversity of life on earth suddenly and dramatically contracted. Scientists around the world are monitoring the sixth extinction, predicted to be the most devastating extinction event since the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs. Adapting from her New York Times-bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning adult nonfiction, Elizabeth Kolbert explores the Anthropocene...
Author
Publisher
Andrews McMeel Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Magic connects living things to each other. This book is not so much about learning how to do magic: it is about learning how to find and recognize magic. As you build a relationship with your environment, you tap into the magic and power inside and beyond your self. Roux takes readers through the cycle of one year and shows how it is divided into eight spokes: two solstices, two equinoxes, and four cross-quarter days that fall between those significant...
Author
Publisher
Frances Lincoln Children's Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Inside, you will discover the wide and wonderful array of different species of fairies around the globe and explore where and how they live. Delight in this hidden world as you learn all about: The anatomy of a fairy (Land-based fairies have individual, separated toes, just as humans do. However, many species of water fairies have webbed feet.) The life cycle of a fairy (When walking in the heather, be careful of the tiny flutterpillar of the Wicklow...
Author
Series
Publisher
Frances Lincoln Children's Books
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Tales of magical creatures have been told across the world for generations... but are these stories merely flights of fancy, or is there any truth to the legends of unicorns and dragons, centaurs and griffins? Presented as the notebook of a 1920s zoologist, this lavish volume sets out to answer this question, revealing the hidden world of the magical beasts that live among us. Within these pages you will meet bizarre and beautiful creatures from around...