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When I was a child, it used to irritate me when people tried to prevent dandelions from growing or said negative things about this flower. Dandelions were the perfect flower in my mind for three reasons:
1) They are hardy and strong. In many parts of North America you can find them growing everywhere without any intervention or pampering needed by humans: ditches, rock gardens, by the side of the highway, in neglected yards, and anywhere else that had the bare minimum amount of soil, sunshine, and water.
2) They are nutritious. You can eat them, turn them into beverages like dandelion wine, or use them as medicine.
3) They are beautiful. I loved every stage of their development, from unobtrusive little green shoots in the spring soil to friendly specks of yellow in a sea of grass to irresistible white puffs of seeds that would be blown off by the wind if people didn’t do it first.
There is something wonderful about plants that thrive under a wide variety of conditions and that have so many uses.
Here are ten books about dandelions.
1. Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury
2. Dandelion and Quince: Exploring the Wide World of Unusual Vegetables, Fruits, and Herbs by Michelle McKenzie
3. The Dandelion’s Tale by Kevin Sheehan
4.An Island in a Green Sea by Mabel Esther Allan
5. Andersen’s Fairy Tales / Johnny Crow’s Garden by Hans Christian Andersen
6. Dandelion, The Extraordinary Life of a Misfit by Sheelagh Mawe
7. Wicket and the Dandelion Warriors: An Ewok Adventure by Larry Weinberg
8. Ta by John Robert Russell
9. Little Dandelion Seeds the World by Julia Richardson
10. Barney Bipple’s Magic Dandelions by Carol Chapman