Green: The Story of Plant Life on Our Planet
A magnificent look at the science of plants from the internationally bestselling and multi award-winning team behind Tiny, Lots and Grow.
This tree doesn’t look like it’s doing very much: it just stands there in the sunlight, big and GREEN. But this tree is busy... Starting with the secret workings of a tree, this book transports readers billions of years into the past; back to the moment when plant life first appeared on our planet. Covering its evolution, the steady emergence of fossil fuels and the extraordinary communities of plants around the world today, Nicola Davies and Emily Sutton combine essential biology with a powerful message, calling on readers to celebrate and cherish the most precious colour on Earth: GREEN.
"Gorgeously illustrated." The Times
“A remarkable and very special work of non-fiction.” Independent on Grow
Nicola Davies is an award-winning author whose many books for children include Tiny, Lots and Grow with Emily Sutton; One World with Jenni Desmond; The Promise and King of the Sky with Laura Carlin; and A First Book of ... Nature, The Sea and Animals with Mark Hearld, Emily Sutton and Petr Horácek respectively. In 2017, she became the first ever recipient of the SLA’s Award for Outstanding Contribution to Information Books. Nicola lives in Wales. Visit her website: www.nicola-davies.com
Emily Sutton graduated from Edinburgh College of Art with a degree in illustration; as well as illustrating picture books, she paints, sculpts and designs prints. Alongside her books with Nicola Davies, Emily's titles for Walker include her authorial début Penny and the Little Lost Puppy, as well as a children's edition of Shakespeare's First Folio in partnership with The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, Betty and the Mysterious Visitor with Anne Twist, Everyone Sang: A Poem for Every Feeling with National Poetry Day founder William Sieghart and bestseller The Christmas Eve Tree with Delia Huddy. Follow her on Instagram: @emilysuttonartist