Aimeekitty- This looks like a wonderful book. I'm always looking for fun and interesting books for my nieces and nephews. Thanks for the recommendation :) Here is a link that might be useful: Curious Garden

Thanks, mboston -- I looked at that book at googlebooks. Somehow I get the feeling the person who did this is just not quite as precise as Virginia L. Burton was. Not to talk down my own piece...maybe I'm wrong... I did see something really cool, though, and loved learning about her life with George Demetrios (didn't know that!) Here is a link that might be useful: This is her son!

Is nonsense poetry OK? If so, try Jack Prelutsky. My sister (an elementary school librarian) gave me one of his books when I lamented the loss of my absolute favorite book of children's poetry, the Arrow Book of Funny Poems. :) It contained such classics as Eletelephony ("Once there was an elephant/Who tried to use the telephant/No No! I mean...), Grandpa Dropped His Glasses ("in a pot of dye/and when he put them on again, he saw a purple sky"), When Daddy Fell into the Pond, and so on. Prelutsky's work is similar to these great nonsensical rhymes. Of course, there's TS Eliot's Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, as well as AA Milne's Pooh poems, Lewis Carroll, Edward Lear, Longfellow. There are several picture books which illustrate single poems as well: for example, Alffred Noyes' The Highwayman illustrated by Charles Mikolaycak, Robert Frost's Birches illustrated by Ed Young... Also, check Inside Out & Back Again, by Thannha Lai. A memoir in verse of a Vietnamese girl whose family fled Saigon in 1975 and ended up in the southern US. It covers her last year in Vietnam, as one of the Boat People, and her first year in the US; she was 10 or so at the beginning of the book. Although it describes her personal experience of the culture shock from Vietnam to the US, it has universal appeal - when I put the book down, I was vividly remembering my own experience starting a new school in a new town when I was 12!

Depends on how much you are prepared to spend. Have a look at the CSIRO Publishing web page http://www.publish.csiro.au/nid/18/bcid/48.htm For Eucalyptus in the southern half of Australia it would be hard to go past the Euclid CD. For Acacia likewise the Wattle CD has a wealth of descriptive information about ALL the Australian spp. The 2 Acacia and 1 Eucalyptus volumes of Flora of Australia are comprehensive though the later is now somewhat outdated. Neither it nor the Euclid CD recognises Corymbia as a distinct genus - in the case of the CD because its principal author is strongly opposed to its recognition (in the face of majority botanical opinion in Australia), in the case of the Flora because it predates publication of Corymbia. For a more general book at a more reasonable price it's hard to beat the current edition of Australian Native Plants by Wrigley and Fagg.