Flowers Are Pretty…Weird! A Talk with Rosemary Mosco About Those Flowers You Wouldn’t Invite to a Dinner Party

Okay, okay. Enough of all these biographies. It’s a problem we actually have every year at my library when we’re compiling our 101 Great Books for Kids List. When the time comes to consider the nonfiction, we end up staring at almost a hundred biographies and maybe thirty to forty science and math titles. Narrative nonfiction, man. It just sucks people in.

But you know what else sucks people in? Weirdo flower facts!! And fortunately, I have a dynamic duo that have already proven themselves i...