Many girls are named after flowers (or even forms of the word “flower,” such as Flora). Girls’ names in different languages accompany her imaginative illustrations of flowers, so that the reader discovers, for example, that Gul means rose in Turkish, but that it is Rosa in Spanish and Rodanthe in Greek. Flowers named in the book include rose, heather, buttercup, sunflower, lily of the valley, daisy, bluebell, snowdrop, hyacinth, myrtle, camomile, cherry blossom, jasmine, violet, tulip, poppy. This can be used in the classroom to talk about culture, language and botany.
- ISBN: 9781554980994
- Author: Wolfsgruber, Linda
- Published: 2011 , Groundwood Books
- Themes: Culture, discovery, Flowers, Imagination, Language
- Descriptors: Austria, Europe, Fantasy, Picture Book, Primary (ages 6-9)
- No. of pages: 32