Books in Acorn: Watch It Grow series

A simple introduction to how a sunflower grows from seed to flowering plant.

Read about how a bean forms from seed to plant to ripened pod. You'll learn what a bean needs to germinate and grow, and where the new seeds for the next generation of beans come from.

Original photographs illustrate the stages of a bean's development.

Simple text and photographs present the life cycle of apple snails.

Dickmann, Nancy

This series provides a first introduction to plant and animal life cycles, exploring how living things grow and reproduce. Readers will learn how new life begins and develops, with an emphasis on the cyclical nature of life.

When you see the great size of a full-grown oak tree, it's hard to believe it started life as a small acorn. This book follows the life cycle of an oak tree from acorn to seedling to young tree to grown tree and back to acorn. Readers will learn how an oak tree begins life, grows, and reproduces.

A simple introduction to the physical characteristics and behavior of the mouse, from its birth until the time it has young of its own.

A simple introduction to the physical characteristics and behavior of frogs, emphasizing their development from the day they hatch until they lay eggs of their own.

This series provides a first introduction to plant and animal life cycles, exploring how living things grow and reproduce. Readers will learn how new life begins and develops, with an emphasis on the cyclical nature of life.

See the cycles of life unfold before your very eyes. With clear, easy text and beautiful, labeled photographs, these colorful books will inspire interest in the lives of these common classroom critters.

Looks at spiders, where they live, their enemies, and how they feed, spin webs, grow up, and mate.