Botanicum – Welcome to the Museum Fashion

Botanicum – Welcome to the Museum

BEAUTIFUL RESOURCE

Discover more than 160 exhibits in this virtual museum, open all hours. 

This gorgeous offering from Big Picture Press’s Welcome to the Museum series, Botanicum, is a brilliantly curated guide to plant life. With artwork from Katie Scott of Animalium fame, Botanicum gives readers the experience of a fascinating exhibition from the pages of a beautiful book. From perennials to bulbs to tropical exotica, Botanicum is a wonderful feast of botanical knowledge complete with superb cross sections of how plants work.

ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS, KEW

This book was produced in consultation with plant and fungal experts at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew in London.

ARE YOU A HOMESCHOOL FAMILY, WALDORF or SCIENCE EDUCATOR?

This is a gorgeous and inspirational book for chalkboard drawings and as a reference book for kids and their grown ups.  Absolutely fabulous for homeschool parents, educators, and as a reference book for kids studying many aspects of botany, such as fungi, lichen, moss, trees, palms, herbaceous plants, grasses, bromeliads and more. Includes many, many illustrations of seed types, growth progression, flower parts and so much more. 

DETAILS

• Botanicum
• Written by Kathy Willis and illustrated by Katie Scott.
• Published by Big Picture Press, March 14, 2017.
• Ages 8-12 is target age but adults will love this book too.
• 0.7″ H x 14.6″ L x 10.8″ W (2.8 lbs) 112 pages
• Hardcover

PRAISE FOR BOTANICUM

Visually stunning, it’s an engrossing overview of Earth’s remarkable and diverse plant life that provides opportunities for ongoing discovery on every page.
–Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Elegantly encapsulating these dizzyingly diverse and ubiquitous wonders, Scott’s photographic illustrations, too, offer astronomical appeal. Complete with an index and sources for suggested reading, this dazzling display is ideal for classroom and coffee-table collections, budding botanists and curious kids, and everywhere–and everyone–in between.
–Booklist (starred review)

A beautifully constructed compendium of plant life from around the world that offers up a visual and informational treat for future botanists and casual browsers alike…The large format, sumptuous artwork, and thoughtful writing put this one a cut above the rest and make this a must-have for any library that can house it.
–School Library Journal

As in companion volume Animalium by Jenny Broom and also illustrated by Scott (2014), the digitally colored images are not drawn to scale but are rendered with as much attention to visual impact as to exact, formal anatomical detail…a big, decorative, eye-filling survey.
–Kirkus Reviews

This title makes a sizable claim to operate as a museum of world plants, and it delivers in a big way…The text is accessible to 3rd grade classrooms (pictures will impress those even younger), yet will still offer interest to secondary grades for botany class or browsing.
–School Library Connection

Containing everything from perennials to bulbs to tropical exotica, this wonderful feast of botanical knowledge is complete with superb cross sections to show how plants work.
–Houston Lifestyles & Homes

TO LEARN MORE BOTANY, VISIT

• ArKive
• American Bryological and Lichenological Society
• Botanical Society of America
•  Botanical Society of Britain
• British Bryological Society (mosses and liverworts)
• British Mycological Society (fungi)
• The Great Plant Escape for Kids
• Grow Wild (additional resources on YouTube)
• Junior Master Gardener 
• The Linnean Society
• World Flora Online
• Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• Royal Horticultural Society
• The Science of Gardening for Kids
• The Woodland Trust

ABOUT THE AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR

Kathy Willis is the director of science at the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew, England. She is also a professor of biodiversity in the zoology department at the University of Oxford and an adjunct biology professor at the University of Bergen. She has authored or co-authored more than one hundred scientific publications. This is her first book for younger readers.

Katie Scott studied illustration at the University of Brighton before moving to London. She is inspired by the elaborate, detailed illustrations by Ernst Haeckel.