Strawberry

"How do you like to eat strawberries?"

Strawberry
By: Jennifer Coldrey and George Bernard
Copyright 1988
A & C Black (Publishers) Limited
Non Fiction (Informational)
Mid Elemetary School Age
25 Pages

How are strawberries grown?  They grow in the summer time, and those that were planted before that "rested" durring the winter, their roots that are still there start to take in water from the soil.  Soon the plant starts to grow and flower buds grow on the plant.  The sun feeds the plant as well as water does.  insects visit the flowers, and when the pollen from the flowers are transfered by them, strawberries might start to grow.  Strawberries start to grow and they start off green.  As they grow the get bigger and bigger and start to turn red.  This means that the strawberry is ready to eat!  When they are not eaten, they are left to rot, but, when this happen the seeds from the strawberry can fall into the soil for another strawberry plant to start to grow.  Strawberry plants and even start the growth of another strawberry plant off of them.  The older plant fcollects food for this new plant.  Durrning autumn the plant starts growing and getting stronger and now it can grow on its own if it needed too.  Winter comes and the cycle repeats.

I would recomend this book to those student intersted in gardening.

There was nothing wrong with this book.

I have mixed feelings on this book.  It was really intersting, but I am really hungry and it probly was not the best book to read because I REALLY want some strawberries now, and sadly they are not in season.