The Sunflower or the Little Gardener’s Handbook

How does a little seed, fallen from the beak of a greedy bird, become a great and towering sunflower? How did that lofty plant appear in the back yard? Where did it come from? Why and how does a sunflower sprout? Where does it like to grow? How long does it mature? What does it need to survive? Why does it follow the sun? What is it used for...? And what do gardeners do? When, why and what do they sow? What is actually happening when a plant grows? What helps it thrive? What do we need to protect it from? How do we fertilize it? 

Agáta, Max and their grandma turn readers of this book into gardeners before they even realize it. On the way, they discover all sorts of secrets, novelties, stories and little experiments to try that help them understand the world of plants a bit better. There’s a little something about colors and smells, birds and bugs, water and dirt, manure, growing and genes, sleeping and waking, sundials and the cycle of life... And scattered throughout the book are little poems for the times when a mere description doesn’t quite suffice. Just as we’ve come to expect from Jiří Dvořák.