As Clifford helps Emily Elizabeth with her garden, he learns about seeds, how they grow, and the importance of care and love for both growing plants and puppies.

Eric Carle’s classic story of the life cycle of a flower is told through the adventures of a tiny seed. This mini-book includes a piece of detachable seed-embedded paper housed on the inside front cover. Readers can plant the entire piece of paper and watch as their very own tiny seeds grow into beautiful wildflowers.

A simple description of a flowering plant's life cycle through the seasons.

How do you make a garden grow? In this playful companion to the popular Tap the Magic Tree and Touch the Brightest Star, you will see how tiny seeds bloom into beautiful flowers. And by tapping, clapping, waving, and more, young readers can join in the action! Christie Matheson masterfully combines the wonder of the natural world with the interactivity of reading. Now available as a board book--perfect for tiny hands. Beautiful collage-and-watercolor art follows the seed through its entire life cycle, as it grows into a zinnia in a garden full of buzzing bees, curious hummingbirds, and colorful butterflies. Children engage with the book as they wiggle their fingers to water the seeds, clap to make the sun shine after rain, and shoo away a hungry snail. Appropriate for even the youngest child, Plant the Tiny Seed is never the same book twice--no matter how many times you read it! And for curious young nature lovers, a page of facts about seeds, flowers, and the insects and animals featured in the book is included at the end. Fans of Eric Carle, Lois Ehlert, and Press Herewill find their next favorite book in Plant the Tiny Seed.

My son was fourteen at the time when he came to me and said that life was so hard sometimes he wished he could just go to heaven. I should have been disturbed by his statement, but all I could do was relate. He inspired me to write The Little Flower. Kids go through so much, from divorces to bullying, peer pressure, and feeling like they just don't fit in. I've wanted to write a series of books that deal with these issues. It is not only my hope that these books will help kids see that there is a purpose for us and that if we stay strong, we will see good come out of even the hardest of times; it is also my hope that these books will speak to us adults as well! Thank you for reading my very first book, The Little Flower. It is very dear to my heart, and I pray it touches yours.