Budtime Books
Our selection of spring-related books blossoms with diverse stories for all ages!
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Floral Provisions
$18.95
Sweeten your everyday meals and treats with this whimsical cookbook where flowers take a starring role. Floral Provisions makes incorporating edible flowers into dishes and desserts an easy task—with gorgeous and delicious results. Perfect for brunches, picnics, afternoon snacks, or celebrations, recipes include:
• Rose Petal French Toast
• Raspberry Elderflower Scones
• A Floral Cheese Board
• Garden Party Layer Cake
By Cassie Winslow; photography by Naomi McColloch
152 pagess
Published by Chronicle Books, 2022
Hardcover
5.35 x 0.75 x 8.55 inches
Flower Color Guide
$35.00
The ultimate color-by-color flower reference guide - from New York's pre-eminent floral designers, Putnam and Putnam.
Planning a wedding, a dinner, a birthday party, a romantic evening, holiday entertaining, or just arranging flowers for the pleasure of having them, more often than not your creative process begins with thinking about the color of the flowers that you want. To help you find what you are looking for, Flower Color Guide is the first reference book to organize flower types by color, with an emphasis on seasonality and creative color schemes - and the results are stunning in their sheer variety. What Pantone is to color, Flower Color Guide is to flowers.
Showcasing 400 flowers at their peak, with stunning photography taken by Putnam & Putnam in their Brooklyn studio, this guide includes an appendix featuring perforated pages, with tips on flower care, notes on how to prepare vessels and a list of suggested color schemes. A great gift to give, or to have for oneself, the book speaks to the most seasoned flower enthusiasts as well as those just beginning to explore the possibilities of arranging flowers.
Michael and Darroch Putnam have built a reputation for romantic, dramatic floral arrangements and installations using color as their guiding principle - here, they share their knowledge with readers worldwide: "This is the book we wished we had when we started doing flowers."
By Michael Putnam and Darroch Putnam
484 pages
Published by Phaidon Press, 2018
Hardcover
5.1 x 1.4 x 7.1 inches
Iridescence of Birds
$19.99
If you were a boy named Henri Matisse who lived in a dreary town in northern France, what would your life be like? Would it be full of color and art? Full of lines and dancing figures?
Find out in this beautiful, unusual picture book about one of the world's most famous and influential artists by acclaimed author and Newbery Medal-winning Patricia MacLachlan and innovative illustrator Hadley Hooper.
Written by Patricia MacLachlan, Illustrated by Hadley Hooper40 pages
Published by Roaring Brook Press, 2014
Hardcover
9.4 x 11 inches
Me + Tree
$18.99
A young girl and an old tree learn from each other how to find their purpose and foster healing in the world.
By Alexandria Giardino; illustrated by Anna & Elena Balbusso
32 pages
Published by Creative Editions, 2021
Hardcover
9.2 x 0.6 x 12.3 inches
Paper Blossoms for All Seasons: A Book of Beautiful Bouquets for the Table
$40.00
This collection of pop-up paper bouquets from the creator of the bestselling Paper Blossoms celebrates the beauty of the four seasons. Each breathtaking arrangement—spring daffodils, summer sunflowers, autumn foliage, and a winter wreath—makes a distinctive centerpiece and brings surprise to any décor. A unique gift for any occasion, Paper Blossoms for All Seasons delights with color, joy, and beauty throughout the year.
By Ray Marshall4 Pop-Up Pages
Published by Chronicle Books, 2017
Hardcover
10 x 12 inches
Petal: The World of Flowers Through An Artist's Eye
$37.00
By Adriana Picker
256 pages
Published by Hardie Grant, 2020
Hardcover
8.8 x 1 x 11.4 inches
The Cocktail Garden: Botanical Cocktails for Every Season
$19.99
Open The Cocktail Garden and you'll find the most beautiful cocktail creations spiked with the botanical flavors of each season. Enjoy a berry filled cobbler on a long summer's day; a fig and thyme cooler under falling leaves; a pomegranate highball by a winter bonfire; and a honeydew-studded fix at a springtime garden party. With more than 80 recipes showcasing the riot of flavors found in the garden, and the most beautiful illustrations by internationally renowned artist Adriana Picker, this collection of cocktails will inspire you to get mixing.
Ed Loveday is a cocktail master. He has developed award-winning wine and cocktail lists for ACME and Bar Brose in Sydney (the latter being awarded Best Wine List in the 2016 Australian Liquor Industry Awards). At Bar Brose, he has established a late-night drinking venue known for its French-inspired menu, natural wines, and cocktails made with seasonal produce.
Illustrations by Adriana Picker, Recipes by Ed Loveday176 pages
Published by Hardie Grant Books, 2017
Hardcover
7.60 x 6.60 inches
The Secret Language of Flowers: Notes on the Hidden Meanings of Flowers in Art
$36.00
During his 2012 residency at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, French artist Jean-Michel Othoniel (born 1964) delved into the archives of the magnificent garden that Isabella Stewart Gardner cultivated around her residence.
Othoniel examined the Museum and photographed the flowers in the tapestries, ironwork, architecture, furnishings and paintings, in such masterpieces as van Dyck's Portrait of a Woman with its innocuous rose, Piermatteo d'Amelia's Annunciation with its majestic lily and Bartolomé Bermejo's Saint Engracia with its enigmatic palm.
This gift-worthy volume presents his art-historical ABC of these flowers, from Acanthus to Zea Mays.
By Jean-Michel Othoniel
192 pages
Published by the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 2015
Hardcover
5.5 x 0.8 x 8.5 inches
What is Inside a Flower?
$17.99
Budding backyard scientists can start exploring their world with this stunning introduction to these flowery show-stoppers--from seeds to roots to blooms. Learning how flowers grow gives kids beautiful building blocks of science and inquiry.
In the launch of a new nonfiction picture book series, Rachel Ignotofsky's distinctive art style and engaging, informative text clearly answers any questions a child (or adult) could have about flowers.
By Rachel Ignotofsky
48 pages
Published by Crown Books for Young Readers, 2021
Hardcover
9.38 x 0.38 x 10.75 inches
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