Questions Kids Ask About Plants

by Grolier

Why is cactus prickly? What is deady nightshade? Do bananas grow on trees? What are fiddleheads? Why do jumping beans jump? What is a mushroom? What is an eggplant? What is a weed? Do plants sleep?

32 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 1989

About the author

Grolier was an American publisher, now an imprint of Scholastic.

Grolier's origins are in The Grolier Society, founded in 1895 by a group of Boston scholars, which sold deluxe editions on a subscription basis. The Grolier Club, a society founded in 1884, was named in honor of French Renaissance book collector Jean Grolier, and the society adopted the name Grolier in its honor.