The Life of a Leaf

The Life of a Leaf
Author: Steven Vogel
Publsiher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2012-10-01
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 9780226859422

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In its essence, science is a way of looking at and thinking about the world. In The Life of a Leaf, Steven Vogel illuminates this approach, using the humble leaf as a model. Whether plant or person, every organism must contend with its immediate physical environment, a world that both limits what organisms can do and offers innumerable opportunities for evolving fascinating ways of challenging those limits. Here, Vogel explains these interactions, examining through the example of the leaf the extraordinary designs that enable life to adapt to its physical world. In Vogel’s account, the leaf serves as a biological everyman, an ordinary and ubiquitous living thing that nonetheless speaks volumes about our environment as well as its own. Thus in exploring the leaf’s world, Vogel simultaneously explores our own. A companion website with demonstrations and teaching tools can be found here: http://www.press.uchicago.edu/sites/vogel/index.html

The Life of a Leaf

The Life of a Leaf
Author: Steven Vogel
Publsiher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2012-10-17
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 9780226859392

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In its essence, science is a way of looking at and thinking about the world. In The Life of a Leaf, Steven Vogel illuminates this approach, using the humble leaf as a model. Whether plant or person, every organism must contend with its immediate physical environment, a world that both limits what organisms can do and offers innumerable opportunities for evolving fascinating ways of challenging those limits. Here, Vogel explains these interactions, examining through the example of the leaf the extraordinary designs that enable life to adapt to its physical world. In Vogel’s account, the leaf serves as a biological everyman, an ordinary and ubiquitous living thing that nonetheless speaks volumes about our environment as well as its own. Thus in exploring the leaf’s world, Vogel simultaneously explores our own. A companion website with demonstrations and teaching tools can be found here: http://www.press.uchicago.edu/sites/vogel/index.html

The Fall of Freddie the Leaf

The Fall of Freddie the Leaf
Author: Leo F. Buscaglia
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2002
Genre: Children's stories
ISBN: 0805071954

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Dedicated to all children who have ever suffered a permanent loss, and to the grownups who could not find a way to explain it.

The Book of Leaves

The Book of Leaves
Author: Allen J. Coombes
Publsiher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 656
Release: 2014-12-10
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 9780226176864

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Of all our childhood memories, few are quite as thrilling, or as tactile, as those of climbing trees. Scampering up the rough trunk, spying on the world from the cool green shelter of the canopy, lying on a limb and looking up through the leaves at the summer sun almost made it seem as if we were made for trees, and trees for us.Even in adulthood, trees retain their power, from the refreshing way their waves of green break the monotony of a cityscape to the way their autumn transformations take our breath away. In this lavishly illustrated volume, the trees that have enriched our lives finally get their full due, through a focus on the humble leaves that serve, in a sense, as their public face. The Book of Leaves offers a visually stunning and scientifically engaging guide to six hundred of the most impressive and beautiful leaves from around the world. Each leaf is reproduced here at its actual size, in full color, and is accompanied by an explanation of the range, distribution, abundance, and habitat of the tree on which it’s found. Brief scientific and historical accounts of each tree and related species include fun-filled facts and anecdotes that broaden its portrait. The Henry’s Maple, for instance, found in China and named for an Irish doctor who collected leaves there, bears little initial resemblance to the statuesque maples of North America, from its diminutive stature to its unusual trifoliolate leaves. Or the Mediterranean Olive, which has been known to live for more than 1,500 years and whose short, narrow leaves only fall after two or three years, pushed out in stages by the emergence of younger leaves. From the familiar friends of our backyards to the giants of deep woods, The Book of Leaves brings the forest to life—and to our living rooms—as never before.

Leaf Man

Leaf Man
Author: Lois Ehlert
Publsiher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 44
Release: 2005
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0152053042

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Fall has come, the wind is gusting, and Leaf Man is on the move. Is he drifting east, over the marsh and ducks and geese? Or is he heading west, above the orchards, prairie meadows, and spotted cows? No one's quite sure, but this much is certain: A Leaf Man's got to go where the wind blows. With illustrations made from actual fall leaves and die-cut pages on every spread that reveal gorgeous landscape vistas, here is a playful, whimsical, and evocative book that celebrates the natural world and the rich imaginative life of children. Includes an author's note and leaf-identifying labels.

Life in the Leaf Litter

Life in the Leaf Litter
Author: Elizabeth A. Johnson,Kefyn M. Catley,Patricia J. Wynne
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2002-06-01
Genre: Electronic Book
ISBN: 1930465114

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A guide to the invertebrate animals in urban park woodlands.

Red Leaf Yellow Leaf

Red Leaf  Yellow Leaf
Author: Lois Ehlert
Publsiher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 42
Release: 1991
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0152661972

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Lois Ehlert uses watercolor collage and pieces of actual seeds, fabric, wire, and roots in this innovative and rich introduction to the life of a tree. A special glossary explains how roots absorb nutrients, what photosynthesis is, how sap circulates, and other facts about trees. "Children will beg to share this book over and over."--American Bookseller

The Very Last Leaf

The Very Last Leaf
Author: Stef Wade
Publsiher: Capstone Editions
Total Pages: 33
Release: 2020-08
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9781684462605

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Lance Cottonwood is the best and brightest of the leaves, but even the top students on the tree have worries. Can Lance conquer his fear of falling and just let go when the time comes for his final exam, or will he let his worries take over? In this funny and encouraging picture book, best-selling author Stef Wade (A Place for Pluto) tells an engaging story and deftly addresses social and emotional struggles many kids encounter each day...feeling anxious, wanting to be perfect, facing fears, etc. These themes combined with illustrator Jennifer Davison's delightful characters and rich autumnal colors make The Very Last Leaf a perfect book for the start of a new school year, the arrival of autumn, or any period of transition in life.