First Field Guide: Wildflowers

National Audubon Society First Field Guides

by Susan Hood

A user-friendly nature guide to the most commonly found wildflowers includes a general overview section written in simple language, an identification section, and a laminated spotter's guide with hundreds of color photographs. Simultaneous.

Genres: Nonfiction, Science, Reference, Nature, Field Guides

160 pages, Paperback

First published January 2, 1998

About the author

Susan Hood is the award-winning author of many books for young readers, including Ada's Violin; Lifeboat 12; The Last Straw: Kids vs. Plastics; Shaking Things Up; Titan and the Wild Boars: The True Cave Rescue of the Thai Soccer Team; and We Are One: How the World Adds Up.

Susan is the recipient of an E. B. White Read-Aloud Picture Book Honor, the Christopher Award, the Américas Award for Children’s and Young Adult Literature, the Golden Kite Award, and the Bank Street Flora Stieglitz Straus Award, given annually for “a distinguished work of nonfiction that serves as an inspiration to young people.”

COMING IN MARCH, 2022!
Susan's newest book is Alias Anna: A True Story of Outwitting the Nazis. Co-authored with Anna's (a.k.a. Zhanna's) son Greg Dawson, this biography in verse celebrates the life-saving power of the arts.

Reviews

[Meredith Henning · Rating 4 out of 5]

small enough to pack along on an outing/good visuals & photographs

[Kelly · Rating 4 out of 5]

Well, I didn't read every word...but the feature I like about this book was that it showed you look-alike flower. So I identified something I saw last summer out west using this book!