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Books with author Katie Peters

  • No-Waste Kitchen Gardening:Regrow Your Leftover Greens, Stalks, Seeds, and More

    Katie Elzer-Peters

    eBook (Cool Springs Press, Dec. 18, 2018)
    No-Waste Kitchen Gardening is a fun and colorful exploration of the amazing results you can get by re-growing vegetable cutoffs and scraps into harvestable, edible plants. Stop tossing your carrot stumps, loose cilantro sprigs, lettuce and cabbage stalks, and apple cores in the trash! The expert advice in No-Waste Kitchen Gardening, gives you all the instruction and tricks you'll need to grow and re-propagate produce from food waste. You'll be astonished at how much food waste you can re-grow. You'll also find some helpful general information about growing indoors and maintaining your re-grown plants. Two-part photo instructions show first what the root, chunk seed, or leaf should look like when you re-plant it, and second, when to harvest or re-plant it in soil to continue growing. Edibles big and small, quick to grow and those that take a big longer, are included, so you can pick and choose which projects to take on. A few of the many plants profiled include:Green onionsTomatoesMelonsAvocadoesPotatoesCarrotsCut back on your food waste, cultivate your own food easily, and maybe even share gardening with a new generation, all with the advice from No-Waste Kitchen Gardening.
  • Nature Has Spots

    Katie Peters

    Library Binding (Lerner Publications TM, Aug. 1, 2019)
    Discover patterns in nature by looking at animals with spots. Pair this photo-driven nonfiction book with its illustrated fiction companion title, Mia Can See Patterns.
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  • No-Waste Kitchen Gardening: Regrow Your Leftover Greens, Stalks, Seeds, and More

    Katie Elzer-Peters

    Paperback (Cool Springs Press, Dec. 18, 2018)
    The debut book in the internationally successful No-Waste Gardening series, No-Waste Kitchen Gardening is a fun and colorful exploration of the amazing results you can get by re-growing vegetable cutoffs and scraps into harvestable, edible plants. Stop tossing your carrot stumps, loose cilantro sprigs, lettuce and cabbage stalks, and apple cores in the trash! The expert advice in No-Waste Kitchen Gardening, gives you all the instruction and tricks you'll need to grow and re-propagate produce from food waste. You'll be astonished at how much food waste you can re-grow. You'll also find some helpful general information about growing indoors and maintaining your re-grown plants. Two-part photo instructions show first what the root, chunk seed, or leaf should look like when you re-plant it, and second, when to harvest or re-plant it in soil to continue growing. Edibles big and small, quick to grow and those that take a big longer, are included, so you can pick and choose which projects to take on. A few of the many plants profiled include:Green onionsTomatoesMelonsAvocadoesPotatoesCarrotsCut back on your food waste, cultivate your own food easily, and maybe even share gardening with a new generation, all with the advice from No-Waste Kitchen Gardening. For more no-waste gardening advice, explore the second book in the No-Waste Gardening series, No-Waste Organic Gardening.
  • Little Woodland Animals

    Katie Peters

    Paperback (Lerner Publications TM, Aug. 1, 2019)
    What sorts of animals live in the forest? You'll spy squirrels, birds, butterflies, rabbits, skunks, and snakes. Pair this photo-illustrated nonfiction title with its fiction companion book, A Good Nut.
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  • Under the Rain Forest Canopy

    Katie Peters

    language (Lerner Publications TM, Aug. 1, 2019)
    Discover the variety of animals that live in the rain forest, including frogs, jaguars, monkeys, parrots, and sloths. Pair this photo-illustrated nonfiction title with its fiction companion book, Up the Tree.
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  • I See the Ocean

    Katie Peters

    Paperback (Lerner Publications TM, Aug. 1, 2019)
    Dive beneath the waves to meet the crab, fish, turtles, whales, and seaweed that live in the ocean habitat. Pair this photo-illustrated nonfiction title with its fiction companion book, The Fish.
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  • Big Grassland Animals

    Katie Peters

    Library Binding (Lerner Publications TM, Aug. 1, 2019)
    What roams through grassland habitats? Discover bison, elephants, giraffes, kangaroos, lions, and zebra. Pair this photo-illustrated nonfiction title with its fiction companion book, My Baby Elephant.
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  • Daisy's Rainbow Picnic

    Katie Peters

    Board book (Cartwheel Books, Jan. 1, 2009)
    Come play with these soft and sparkly fairy friends!With candy-sweet art and adorable, sparkly fairies, this board book with flaps and glitter is a treat! Every little girl will love to follow Jasmine, Rosie, Lily, and Daisy on their fabulous adventures.Come join the fun as Daisy and her friends eat al-fresco in Daisy's Rainbow Picnic. Each fairy has brought something sweet and delectable to share. Not even rain can spoil their picnic-the Sweetheart Fairies lunch beneath a helpful flower.
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  • Pull and Push

    Katie Peters

    eBook (Lerner Publications TM, Aug. 1, 2019)
    See what pulls and pushes can do through several examples of forces and motion in everyday life. Pair this photo-driven nonfiction title with its illustrated fiction companion book, Milo and the Ball.
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  • Pull and Push

    Katie Peters

    Paperback (Lerner Publications TM, Aug. 1, 2019)
    See what pulls and pushes can do through several examples of forces and motion in everyday life. Pair this photo-driven nonfiction title with its illustrated fiction companion book, Milo and the Ball.
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  • Apple Seeds

    Katie Peters

    eBook (Lerner Publications TM, Aug. 1, 2019)
    Where do apples come from? Look at an apple seed, tree, blossom, and finally fruit. Pair this nonfiction title with its illustrated fiction companion book, Emily's Pumpkin.
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  • Apple Seeds

    Katie Peters

    Paperback (Lerner Publications TM, Aug. 1, 2019)
    Where do apples come from? Look at an apple seed, tree, blossom, and finally fruit. Pair this nonfiction title with its illustrated fiction companion book, Emily's Pumpkin.
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