I Am a Meadow Mermaid by Kallie George, Elly MacKay shrew Lacy Phacelia

Lacy Phacelia

Edible flowers range in flavor from mild to piquant and can be used fresh or dried

and five ladybugs

from the Starling to the Eagle

Karen has helped organize Irvine Nature Center's annual Nature Preschool Conference for a national audience since its inception

I Am a Meadow Mermaid by Kallie George, Elly MacKay shrew Lacy PhaceliaA farm girl with a big imagination turns her landlocked home into an ocean playground in this dreamy picture book for little mermaids everywhere. A little girl dreams of adventures in the water and feels the spirit of the ocean all around her . . . even though she lives on the prairie, with flat land as far as the eye can see. But she won't let a little detail like that stand in the way of being a meadow mermaid! Frolicking in the "waves" of wheat and