Grow Flower, Grow!

A little girl is frustrated that her potted plant won't grow no matter how much pizza and her other favorite foods she tries to feed it. When she throws a fit and tosses it outside, the sun and rain bring forth the flower she desired.

A clever and fun way to be educational.

Fran is a little girl who finds a flowerpot with a tip and decides to take it home to take care of it. Because she doesn’t know how to take care of plants she decides to give all kinds of food people and animals eat in order for the plant to grow. Little she knew that it was not that kind of food the flower needed. When she finally gets tired and throws it outside where the plants gets air, water, and sunshine, something starts to happen. Beardshaw uses canvas-like colorful pictures to display the story and Fran’s dog effortlessly trying to help her. A science unit on plants will benefit exploring the story and pictures as learners analyze Fran’s efforts to care for the bud.

There was a new girl at storytime who refused to talk or sing, or do any of the motions with anything UNTIL this story. She then quietly said that flowers need sun and rain, not pizza. SO CUTE!

This is a fiction book about a little girl that tries to grow a flower using the many things she likes (pizza, ice cream, etc.). This is a good book when discussing flowers or plants and the necessities that they need to grow big and tall.

Fran finds a flower pot with a tiny green tip shooting out the top of the soil.This is a good book to read to students when learning about plant life and other environment issues. Very good illustrations.

fran does whatever she can to get her flower to grow, she feeds it people food, feeds it drinks but eventually learns that a plant needs sun and water to grow, not people food.
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In this story a little girl named Fran learns that seeds need water and sunshine to grow into a flower.