All around us—in gardens, along country roads, in fields and forests—flowers are being pollinated.  Pollination marks the beginning of each and every new flowering plant, season after season, year after year.  A process that began long, long ago when flowering plants first appeared on earth, pollination is filled with wonder and delight.  It is indeed one of nature's most extraordinary miracles.

Plants sustain our living world.  Without them, we could not live on our planet.  But plants could not exist without the help of animals and insects, from honeybees and butterflies to hummingbirds, and even bats.  This intricate relationship is one of the most precise and marvelous partnerships ever to exist in the natural world.

Anne Ophelia Dowden describes in clear, precise, text, and illustrates in meticulous full-color paintings and exquisite black-and-white drawings, this amazing interrelationship between plants and animals.

From the dust jacket