What Kinds of Seeds Are These?

I loved the illustrations in this book. They were simple and clean, with many of them being full bleeds. I also thought it was cute that there were children on many of the pages exploring the seeds and plants. I liked the idea that the book was written in both rhyme and prose. The pages with the rhyme gave hints about the type of seed and were catchy and cute with fun words like "wif-whuffle" and "tuft" and "trekkers". The rhyming pages also had illustrations showing children or an animal playing in the plant whose seeds were being rhymed about. Opposite the pages of rhyme were pages that depicted the seed and asked the question, "What kind of seed is this?" followed by the answer to the question.

However, I took issue with how this book presented several of the seeds. Some of the seeds had clear illustrations on the non-rhyme page of the seed discussed in the rhyme. The acorn and the dandelion each even had two full-bleed pages apiece! At the same time, though, several of the "seeds" were actually pictures of the plants from which they came. For example, the page about coconuts showed a full palm tree, and the page about Red and Silver Maple Tree seeds showed the trees, not the seeds. In addition, sometimes, the rhymes were totally unrelated to the question and answer on the opposite side. On one set of pages, the rhyme was:

"Wedged like peas in a pod or sardines in a tin,
these seeds are contained in canoe-style skins.
When the skin gets too tight, little seeds get a squeeze - 
they pop from their pod like a miniature sneeze!"

and the illustration on the rhyming page was of a pea pod. However, the picture on the opposite page was of purple flowers, and the answer to the question "What kind of seed is this?" was "a violet seed". Huh? For the young readers who are still learning about prediction and organization of books, this would be confusing! I also wished that the answer to the "What kind of seed is this?" question were complete sentences just because I didn't want to confuse young readers about what a sentence is.