Follow pollen from flower to food. Discover how bees, butterflies, and hummingbirds carry tiny grains that become seeds, fruit, and many of the foods families eat every day.
Can You Read Nature? · Close to Home
Follow the pollen. Meet the tiny heroes behind every bloom.
Discover pollinators through lyrical storytelling, real plant science, and museum-quality botanical artwork created for curious families.
Ages 5–14+Family nature bookArt by Allison Daines
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Hardcover
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$29.95Includes instant-download ebook
- Free ebook included with hardcover
- A nature book for discovering pollinators close to home
- Original botanical art that makes plant science memorable
- $1 to Children and Nature Network
Ebook
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
- Flowers, pollinators, and plant science shine on a screen
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The Busy Garden Bundle
From the buzz of a beehive to the flutter of butterfly wings, discover the little creatures that keep our gardens growing. Spark your young explorer’s curiosity with three colorful adventures: Pollinators, Beehives, and Butterflies. Bring home the trio and get Butterflies half off, plus enjoy free shipping!
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Wear the wonder
Help the garden grow—and wear the wonder.
Pair the hardcover nature book with the matching Pollinators shirt for a gift that keeps curiosity blooming long after the final page.
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Look closer
Every bloom begins an extraordinary partnership.
Meet the whole pollinator team. Find bats, moths, beetles, flies, ants, wind, and water at work—then learn how native flowers, clean water, and wild spaces can help them thrive.
Meet the artist
Allison Daines
Botanical artist and illustrator
“Careful observation opens a world of curiosity, wonder, and connections among all living things.”
Allison Daines is a botanical artist and illustrator based in Reno, Nevada.
She grew up surrounded by art, learning watercolor techniques in her mother's painting classes from an early age, a foundation that continues to shape her delicate, nature-inspired style today. She studied painting and drawing at Southern Oregon University, where she further developed her love of traditional illustration and the natural world. Allison's work celebrates the beauty of plants, animals, and the intricate relationships that connect all living things, combining careful observation with a sense of curiosity and wonder.
She is currently illustrating Atlas of Herbs, an ongoing botanical art and natural history project celebrating the folklore, ecology, and traditional uses of plants from around the world. When she isn't painting, she can often be found exploring wild places, sketchbook in hand, gathering inspiration for future botanical illustrations and stories that encourage children to look more closely at the world around them.
Allison’s botanical illustrations invite children to look closely at flowers and the remarkable animals that help them thrive.
About this book
What is inside
Explore how pollination creates seeds and food, meet bees, butterflies, hummingbirds, bats, moths, beetles and other pollinators, discover flowers’ remarkable attraction strategies, learn about specialized partnerships and climate challenges, and build a welcoming pollinator garden.
About the author
Narrated by Neil Rosen, children’s book author and founder of WildStork. Neil writes every book as an invitation to look closer, stay longer, and discover what families miss when they move too fast.
Reading level
Ages 5 to 14. Designed for the whole family, with lyrical storytelling and real science to share together.