How Does Your Garden Grow?
To instill or nurture an interest in gardening, five Caldecott Honor books feature the wonders that gardens hold as places providing sustenance, restoration, and a sense of mystery.
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The Metamorphosis of Bunny Baxter
Barbara Carroll Roberts’ evident love of gardening and insects and not-sports and reading and kids and families and friends gives us a page-turning book that I spent happy hours reading.
Mrs. Spitzer’s Garden
I’ve been reading gardening books these last few weeks. They’ve kept me entertained and inspired while the temperatures warm in my own garden so that I can begin planting the flats of flowers I have under lights in my laundry room.
Fresh Air: Taking Storytime Outdoors
“We could never have loved the earth so well if we had no childhood in it.” —George Eliot
In the state of Iowa, where I live, the change from winter to spring is like an on and off switch. Yet, at the end of another vortex, Spring has finally come to Iowa. Spring is a perfect time to schedule your storytime programs outdoors.… more
Gardening and Farming Delights
Jackie: At last — we made it to spring and all the usual accoutrements have shown up — lilacs, violets, the smell of apple blossoms, and thoughts of sprouting seeds and growing vegetables. How could we not look at picture books about gardens and farming this month?
I have to confess, Phyllis, I did not know of Miss Jaster’s Garden, written and illustrated by N.… more
