Flowers and Their Friends

How flowers and insects came to need each other, explained to children by a teacher who refused to talk down — “it would be very stupid indeed to try to read a book written in Arabic,” she begins, so look up every word you don't know.

Nectar Guides

2 pages in this part of Flowers and Their Friends.

Nectar Guides

THE bee is always in a hurry. She flies from flower to flower as fast as she can.

Nectar Guides: Proteus

It is sometimes called "Proteus" for the same reason. Of course you know all about Proteus, the sea god who lived at the bottom of the…

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