Books with title A Sunflower Story

How does one describe a life of love, faith, commitment, and perseverance? This is a story of all of those things and so much more. It is meant for children to learn about caring. It is meant for the adults of the world to find hope and purpose to the challenges faced along life's paths. Readers will find their own meaning to this simple tale about a relationship between a sunflower and her caretaker. "As the sunflower turns to her God when she sets, the same look that she turned when he rose." ~ Believe Me If All Those Endearing Young Charms by Thomas Moore

A Sunflower Story relates both the beauty and importance of nature in a lovely picturebook that young children can understand and enjoy. A lively group of garden flowers and animals help convince a proud sunflower that having a purpose is just as important as being incredibly attractive. In addition to writing a wonderful story, author Mary Denning, an award-winning poet and acclaimed painter, uses brilliant watercolor illustrations that will delight children of all ages. Children will love the colorful characters on Mr. McKenna's Farm as they also learn about all of the things flowers can do, and how everything has a special purpose.

A tall plant with a huge yellow flower grows in a field. It was once a small seed. So how did it get so big? Beginning readers will discover how a seed turns into a sunflower in clear, simple steps in this basic introduction to plant development. Each 24-page book features controlled text with age-appropriate vocabulary and simple sentence construction. The clear text, fresh design, and colorful, eye-catching photos are sure to capture the interest of emergent readers.

This is a story about teenagers that experiment with a not so well known hallucinogenic plant and it's accompanied aftermath. It takes place in a small Colorado town, the summer of 1996. Cops, drugs and other poor choices are ready for your eyes to read. Fictional names that tell a real story in the end. Written with a troglodyte intelligence and humor.

This is a fictional rhyming story written for children about a conversation between a sad sunflower and the sun during which the sunflower recognizes and comes to appreciate its own uniqueness and value. As the story begins, the sunflower has a negative attitude about who it is and its purpose in life. The sun patiently turns each of the sunflower's negative assessments of itself into positive attributes. As the story ends, the sun succeeds in showing the sunflower the importance of its existence. Children reading this story will see themselves in a new positive light and gain more appreciation of their own individuality and self-worth. This is a delightful tale for parents to read to their young children and could open a heartfelt dialogue between parent and child.

A toddler puts a seed into the ground. It grows into a big, beautiful sunflower! By summer’s end, the flower dies. He cries and cries. Why did it die?Then he discovers that the sunflower left him a present ~ many, many seeds. He, and his animal friends, happily eat them up. All but one…And that, he puts in the ground. The up-beat vibe of the SUNFLOWER song sends a positive message about loss. Life goes on!

Sunflower, a Native American girl of ten summers survives the loss of family and the destruction of her village by bandits in 1810. She and her injured grandmother are rescued by soldiers and taken to Fort Joseph where they are plunged into the white culture, an environment often strange, frequently confusing and sometimes hostile. This multi-faceted novel for young adults shows friendships, injustices and bravery. Diane DesRochers transports us to a place of rugged terrain as you trek through the Appalachian Mountains and into Canada where Sunflower overcomes many obstacles and hardships. In the end, Sunflower emerges a confident young woman who is able to share her triumphs, knowledge and skills.

Excerpt from A Red Flower: A StoryIn the name of His Imperial Highness, Emperor Peter the First, I have come to make an inspection of this insane asylum!About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.