Meet the blooms. Discover how petals, scent, color, and shape help flowers welcome the creatures that visit them.
Can You Read Nature? · Close to Home
Petals, pollinators, and color. Wonder is blooming all around you.
Follow seeds, blossoms, buzzing pollinators, and garden surprises through a nature book made for curious families who love to notice the world in bloom.
Ages 5–14+Family nature bookArt by Elena Kochetova
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Hardcover
The keepsake nature book for curious explorers
$29.95hardcover
- The perfect gift for curious kids
- A nature book for your own backyard
- Original art that makes garden science memorable
- $1 to Children and Nature Network
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The nature book you can take anywhere
$12.95instant download
- Your perfect garden companion, see 10x more
- Kinder to the planet, nothing in a landfill
- Flower science shines on a screen
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Look closer
Every spread opens into a garden alive with stories.
Follow the seasons. Watch seeds, stems, bees, birds, and gardeners work together as the garden changes.
Meet the artist
Elena Kochetova
Artist, storyteller, and lifelong flower watcher
“I wanted every page to feel like stepping into a garden at its brightest—full of color, movement, and tiny lives at work.”
From my earliest days helping my mother plant tulips and gather flower seeds, I've always felt a deep connection to nature. Though I live worlds away from Arches National Park, I spent countless hours studying photos and videos of its magnificent stone arches to bring them to life on these pages. Each illustration begins as a tiny sketch, growing like a seed into a colorful story that captures the wonder of the natural world.
Whether I'm drawing the towering arches of Utah or the delicate petals of garden flowers, I hope my artwork inspires young readers to explore, observe, and protect the beautiful world around us. After all, I believe that when children connect with nature early in life, it plants the seeds for a lifetime of curiosity and care for our environment.
Just as every garden needs tender loving care to flourish, each page in this book was
carefully crafted - from the first pencil marks to the final splash of color. Through my illustrations, I'm inviting you to join me in discovering the amazing connections between plants, animals, and the places they call home.
Elena’s illustrations invite families to slow down, look closely, and discover the living community inside every flower bed.
About this book
What is inside
Explore flowers, seeds, petals, pollinators, hummingbirds, bees, seasons, garden habitats, conservation, and ten close-to-home discoveries.
About the author
Written by Gail Simpson, whose storytelling invites families to look closer, stay curious, and discover the science inside familiar places.
Reading level
Ages 5 to 14. Designed for the whole family, with lyrical storytelling and real science to share together.
Wear the wonder
Bring the flower garden home. Wear the wonder.
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