Strange Flowers

The Adventures of Pili Coloring Books are the perfect educational tools to introduce kids to the beauty of nature and the importance of conservation. The eye-catching illustrations will inspire the little explorers to have fun while nurturing their earliest learning skills. A great tool to help parents and educators to teach children about the world''s diversity promoting development of the essential skills of observation and creativity along with recognition and fine motor skills. Inside you will find: Eye-catching illustrations of colorful strange flowers found around the world. It included common names for the plants both in English and Spanish; bold lines to help the young artists stay within the lines. Flowers are amazing for so many reasons and Strange Flowers - A Coloring Book features some of the truly most amazingly strange flowers from around the world. Humans value flowers for a multitude of reasons - they provide us foods and medicines serve as symbols in our religions and rituals and beautify natural and designed landscapes. Plants and their pollinators need something else in ad- dition to each other. Namely they need protection as they are increasingly both threatened by environmental degradation such as habitat loss pollution invasive spe- cies and by climate change. Strange Flowers - A Coloring Book introduces some of these magnificent plants to the generation of humans that must help save these plants their pollinators and the web of life Itself. Brian Boom. Curator Emeritus The New York Botanical Garden