California Plants is an essential resource for outdoor enthusiasts. With his vibrant photographs and lively writing, Matt Ritter takes the reader on a journey through the Golden State's iconic landscapes and abundant plant life. This definitive guide features more than 500 species, along with detailed descriptions, fascinating natural history stories, and handy tree and wildflower color identification charts.

California Plants: A Guide to Our Iconic Flora

History

Ritter, Matt

Americas

Pacific Street Publishing

From one tiny fig seed, journey into a world of rainforest ecology This educational and interactive picture book immerses the reader in the strange and interwoven lifecycles of the rainforest. The beautifully illustrated pages follow the journey of a fig seedling making its own roots and leaves, growing strong, and eventually replacing the giant tree that was its host. As it produces flowers and fruit, it attracts pollinators. A delectable fig is hungrily eaten by a passing toucan who, upon flight, aimlessly drops a seed into the treetops below, beginning the fig's lifecycle once again. Readers will discover additional scientific information about the pollination process, insects, and animals in an illustrated section at the end of the book, and can play a "seek and find" game by locating the elusive red-eyed tree frog on each page of the story. With its engaging style and abundant imagery,Something Wonderful teaches the interdependence of rainforest ecology in an easy-to-follow, captivating story.

Something Wonderful: A Rainforest Tree and its Fascinating Environment

Children's Books

Matt Ritter

Science, Nature & How It Works

Review\n"A bleak, well-written, environmental, science fiction actioner." -- Kirkus Reviews\n"A terrific novel of climate change and genetic engineering; a first-rate cautionary read set against the backdrop of an all-too-probable future." -- Robert J. Sawyer, Hugo Award-Winning Author of Hominids\n"Ritter is a masterful storyteller. His fluent and literary prose is something that the rising new cli-fi genre needs more of." -- Dan Bloom, Editor, The Cli-Fi Report\n--Next Generation Indie Book Award Finalist-- 
--Shortlisted for the International Rubery Book Award, Fiction--\nRAINWALKERS is a story set in the not-so-distant future in a crumbling version of John Steinbeck's Salinas Valley, after the breakup of the United States. A once rich and prosperous agricultural land is now a war-torn nation-state known only as The Valley. To combat chronic droughts, scientists seed clouds with genetically engineered bacteria that create regular rains but unintentionally make the rains lethal to humans. Anyone caught in the rain dies within seconds, yet there are rumors of people who survive... known as rainwalkers.\nIn a profoundly disquieting, near-future world, this novel explores controversial border walls, a tyrannical government, and man's attempts to dominate nature.\nRainwalkers is an unforgettable story of a father's undying love and his struggle to rescue his daughter in a precarious future world that could become our own.\n"A terrific novel of climate change and genetic engineering; a first-rate cautionary read set against the backdrop of an all-too-probable future."-- Robert J. Sawyer, Hugo Award-winning author of Hominids

Rainwalkers

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Science Fiction

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