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Little Wanderers
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781922974433
Publisher: Living Book Press
Published: Jan 1 2026
Pages: 118
Weight: 0.32
Height: 0.28 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Why do plants send their children away? Margaret Warner Morley answers with charm and precision, showing how seeds must travel to find room, light, and the right soil. We begin with airy voyagers-dandelions, thistles, milkweeds-each fitted with silken plumes for flight on the breeze. Then come winged wanderers like maples, elms, ashes, and pines; dust-fine poppy seeds that pour from their pepper-shaker pods; and whole tumbleweeds that roll across the plains sowing as they go. Not all travellers fly: burrs, cockleburs, and stick-tights hitch rides on passers-by, while others float on water or tempt animals with nuts and berries.
Reading this classic cultivates attentive looking, clear description, and patient reasoning. Children learn to notice design in ordinary places and to name what they see-habits that deepen understanding and nurture quiet wonder.
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