We Can Hear Without Ears

We Can Hear Without Ears

This picture book by Lisa Westberg Peters and illustrated by Danielle Ridolfi adopts a new perspective: the plants’ own! Here, the plants themselves dispel the notion that they “just stand around all day with our roots stuck in the ground” by explaining how they convert sunlight to food or collaborate with other species, like monarch butterflies, to flourish. Accompanied by Ridolfi’s delightful collages, We Can Hear Without Ears celebrates all that plants can do—and asks us humans what we might learn from plants ourselves.
-NK