Wildflower Books
Here are some books about wildflowers that I’ve loved reading with my kids over the years. Hopefully you’ll enjoy them, too.
The Legend of the Indian Paintbrush retells the Native American legend of how this beautiful red flower came to be. It’s the story of Little Gopher and his dream that he would one day paint a picture that was as pure as the colors in the evening sky.
The classic Miss Rumphius tells the story of a woman who wants to make the world more beautiful. She does this by planting five bushels of lupine seeds throughout the landscape. The next spring when the blue, purple and rose-colored flowers dot the hillsides, she is perfectly happy.
Blueberry Shoe is perhaps less known than the others, but is a darling story of a little boy who loses his shoe while picking blueberries with his family. Despite an extensive search, the family doesn’t find the shoe until the next summer when they go picking again. Little boy’s shoe has a single blueberry plant growing out of it. Only the reader learns what has really happened to the shoe during the long winter!
Happy reading.
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