THE BOTANY OF DESIRE - YOUNG READERS EDITION

By the bestselling author of The Omnivore's Dilemma, this is Michael Pollan's ingenious companion book about the surprising and close relationship between people and plants.

In this entertaining young readers edition of the environmental studies classic, Michael Pollan demonstrates how people and domesticated plants have formed a reciprocal relationship. He links four fundamental human desires - sweetness, beauty, energy, and control - with the plants that satisfy them: the apple, the tulip, coffee, and the potato. In telling the stories of four familiar species, Pollan illustrates how the plants have evolved to satisfy humankind's most basic yearnings. And just as we've benefited from these plants, we have also helped them to thrive.

This book, about the mutually beneficial relationship between plants and people, has so much to say about biodiversity and environmentalism. It was ahead of its time when the adult book first published in 2001, and is going to be of tremendous interest to kids and their teachers.