Grow – Rizanino Reyes

Grow by Rizanino Reyes is a beautiful gardening book and a comprehensive children’s guide to plants and how to grow them!

This nature book encourages children to get outdoors and discover the wonder of plants and gardening. Each of the book’s 15 chapters celebrate the heroic efforts of a ‘hero’ plant that has sustained our communities and shaped many cultures around the world.

From the wild species to the domesticated selections, each plant and its family relatives offer a unique way of understanding various fruits, vegetables and flowers and the vital roles they play. Encourage children to discover each one’s unique characteristics, intriguing histories and surprising relatives, then follow the step-by-step instruction on how to grow them themselves!

Take inspiration from the natural world with Grow while learning about perseverance from cacti, and discover the power of community from mushrooms and the historic heritage of the humble apple.

Grow is published by Magic Cat Publishing and contains lovely illustrations by Sara Boccaccini Meadows. It is recommended for all children, especially those aged 5 years and up.

Contents:

1 hardback book in English, 64 pages.

About Rizanino Reyes

Rizanino Reyes is a horticulturalist, speaker and educator. Growing up in the Philippines, Reyes spent his childhood on a fruit plantation managed by his father before moving to the Pacific Northwest aged 7. Upon arrival in the United States, Reyes learned the names of the new and strange flowers and continued to nurture his love of horticulture – “the art and science of plants – at the University of Washington.

Of his work, he says he hopes to inspire more young people, “especially people of colour, to be involved with interacting with nature and learning about the environment… If everyone did this, can you imagine what a beautiful world this could be?

Sara Boccaccini Meadows is a British-born illustrator based in Los Angeles. Her playful and illustrative work, created in watercolour, gouache and ink pen and inspired by the great outdoors, has won her an audience of a quarter of a million followers on Instagram.