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How Not to Kill Your Plant
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Age range 6 to 9 A comprehensive guidebook for kids on proper houseplant care, featuring bold illustrations and engaging infographics. Houseplants can add a touch of green to any living space, and caring for them can be a relaxing and rewarding hobby. For kids interested in...
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Age range 6 to 9
A comprehensive guidebook for kids on proper houseplant care, featuring bold illustrations and engaging infographics.
Houseplants can add a touch of green to any living space, and caring for them can be a relaxing and rewarding hobby. For kids interested in learning more about plant care, this comprehensive guidebook covers all the basics and more, teaching kids all about the different types of houseplants, their growth habits, and the best practices to care for them.
Divided into three sections, How Not to Kill Your Plant provides all the information kids need to ensure their houseplants thrive:
- The Basics of Care: Learn about the essential elements of plant care, including watering, lighting, and soil.
- Encyclopedia of houseplants: Identify and learn about common houseplants, including their ideal growing conditions and common issues to look out for.
- Cultivation practice: Discover tips and tricks for repotting, propagation, and other plant care techniques.
Highlights include:
- A glossary of basic plant terminology (e.g., substrate, fertiliser, humidity, etc.)
- Step-by-step instructions for taking care of houseplants
- Advice on choosing the right plant
- Various problems you can expect to encounter and ways to solve them
Filled with clear and concise advice, this book is much more than just a practical guide. It features fresh, modern illustrations that bring the information to life, as well as engaging infographics that make the information easy to understand and remember.
How Not to Kill Your Plant is suitable for children aged 6 to 9 interested in growing houseplants. Geared toward kids who love plants and want to develop a lifelong hobby of plant care, this guidebook is ideal for any young ones looking to green up their home, as well as adult readers and flower shop patrons.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9788000069968
Publisher: Albatros nakladatelstvi as
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 25 January 2024
Country: Czechia
Imprint: Albatros nakladatelstvi as
Illustration: Color illustrations throughout
Contributors:
- Illustrated by Hannah Abbo
- Illustrated by Hannah Abbo
Audience: Children
DIMENSIONS
Width: 195.0mm
Height: 254.0mm
Weight: 300g
Pages: 56
About the Author
Magda Gargulakova has a degree in Art History and is a co-founder and also curator of the OFF/FORMAT gallery in Brno, Czech Republic, which exhibits and promotes contemporary progressive art, mostly by young artists. She worked for a time in marketing, but her love affair with books has been a long one. For OFF/FORMAT, she has edited and published several art publications. Since 2019, she has added to this experience as an editor of literature for very young readers at Albatros Media, using her two daughters for quality control.
Lenka Chytilova was drawn to books and writing from a young age. It was no surprise, then, when she got a degree in Czech Language and Literature and German Translation. She has always tried to connect books and reading, her greatest hobby, with her work; she worked part-time in a bookshop for many years and she also worked as an editor and proofreader. Lenka likes classic Czech fairytales, and she loves Veernek, the Czech television program for children's bedtime stories. She grew up in a village in East Moravia.
Hannah Abbo is a self-taught illustrator originally from Brighton, UK. When she's not drawing, she loves making ceramics, visiting botanical gardens, and growing vegetables. She currently lives and works in Lisbon, Portugal, with her partner and child, their (slightly) overweight cat, and 15 houseplants.
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