The Remarkable Story of the Very First Flower

by Jane McCabe

This is a children's book in full color.
from the back
About a hundred million years ago there were no flowers on the earth. Nor were there people here. Dinosaurs were dying out and in their place mammals were appearing, and then something startling the very first flower appeared. The Remarkable Story of the Very First Flowers imagines her story for children--how hard it was being the first of her kind and how her fruit and seeds brought more food to the planet.

60 pages, Kindle Edition

First published July 12, 2010

About the author

Jane McCabe is a historian. In 2007 she visited Kalimpong seeking information about her grandmother. Ten years and one PhD later, she published Race, Tea and Colonial Resettlement: Imperial Families, interrupted (Bloomsbury Academic, 2017). The book won the ARANZ Ian Wards Prize and the NZHA Erik Olssen Prize. From 2014 to 2019, Jane was a lecturer in history at the University of Otago. She is writing the monograph from her Royal Society of New Zealand Marsden-funded project 'Splitting up the farm? A cross-cultural history of land and inheritance in Aotearoa.

Reviews

[Paula Jones · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good Read

This book was so good it held my daughter attention from the beginning to the end. I’m looking forward to reading more from this author.