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Pleasant, But Not a Standout Addition to Our Bookshelf
MY GARDEN/MI JARDIN is a good book. Like other books in this very nice series of bilingual board books, it features Emberley's distinctive artwork. It is a very nice book to read through with a little one, pointing at objects and naming them, so that he can learn the words.
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Subjects:  1. Children's Baby/Preschool    2. Children's Books/Baby-Preschool    3. Concepts - General    4. Gardening    5. Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.    6. House & Home    7. Juvenile Nonfiction    8. Juvenile literature    9. People & Places - United States - Hispanic/Latino    10. Preschool Multicultural Studies    11. Spanish language    12. Spanish: Kindergarten    13. Terminology    14. Juvenile Nonfiction / Concepts / General   

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Offers 17 different gardening projects with kids in mind
Gardening is lots of fun, especially with this project-oriented introduction that offers 17 different gardening projects with kids in mind, from growing a hanging basket of vegetables to creating a water garden complete with fish. Simple lists of what's needed to start each project are embellished by color photos of young gardeners and botany insights with simple facts. Children in grades 3-5 will find Kids' Container Gardening most inviting.
An Amazing and Fun Filled Book for the Entire Family!!!
I bought this book for my 3 niece and nephews.Now I have to buy it for the rest of the kids coz they had such an amazing time with this book.Highly recommended for parents who are interested in doing productive and constructive projects with their children.A great substitute for the cartoon network and a great gift idea!

Creative and Enjoyable!!!
I have 2 children, and this book brought great ideas to our family. It really created ways we could enjoy time and projects together. My son and I used one of the projects ( container gardening) for his school science project-it was fantastic.
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Subjects:  1. Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Nonfiction    2. Children's gardens    3. Children: Grades 3-4    4. Container gardening    5. Experiments    6. Gardening    7. Juvenile Nonfiction    8. Juvenile literature    9. Gardening: general interest    10. Juvenile Nonfiction / Gardening   

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A treasured favorite!
This beautifully-illustrated book with its simple narrative has quickly become a favorite in our house.My four-year-old nature-loving son is always fascinated by the story that recounts lily's discoveries and experiences in her garden and her wilderness surroundings.Each spread also contains interesting facts and histories of the different kinds of vegetation mentioned in the story, which is helpful in keeping adult readers engaged as well!

Fun in the garden
It all starts with the delivery of a box of delicious oranges from Lily's Grandma in California. From there, we spend a year with Lily in her Maine home and watch as she and her garden grow and change month-by-month. The delightful journey also contains a narrative comparison between Lily's Maine garden and Grandma's California growing season (which never ends!). Lily's Garden is beautifully illustrated and has lovely asides providing anecdotal information on the things Lily is doing in and for her garden (a short history of oranges, how to make maple syrup, vegetables in Lily's Garden, Grandma's Blueberry Pancake recipe, etc.). The joys of the seasons and the excitement of gardening are nicely captured in this fun book. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Children's 4-8 - Gardening    2. Children's Books/Ages 4-8 Nonfiction    3. Children: Grades 1-2    4. Family - General    5. Family - Multigenerational    6. Fruit    7. Gardening    8. Juvenile Fiction    9. Juvenile literature    10. Maine    11. Nature & the Natural World - General    12. Vegetables    13. Non-Classifiable   

Subjects:  1. Children's Books/Ages 4-8 Nonfiction    2. Children: Kindergarten    3. Gardening    4. Juvenile Nonfiction    5. Science & Nature - Flowers & Plants    6. Juvenile Nonfiction / Nature / Flowers & Plants   

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Great Growing Activity Ideas!
This is a great book with really interesting ideas for growing plants!I really like the format, and the easy, step-by-step instructions and pictures.It is full of unique projects, and they would be great forscience experiments about growing plants!One of my favorite projects inthis book is growing alfalfa in the shapes of hearts, stars, or whatevershapes you can think of.I would definitely recommend this book forparents and teachers. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Nonfiction    2. Children: Kindergarten    3. Gardening    4. Juvenile Nonfiction    5. Science & Nature - Flowers & Plants   

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One of Waddell's best!
We bought this at a used book store a week ago, and have read it at least 50 times. If you have a very imaginative child, this is a great book. The illustrations are great, different from standard picture books. The main character, Mary, creates a darling "garden" project which she magically becomes a part of and plays in. She isn't quite sure how it is all happening, but she likes it. The unexplained magic is charming, thought provoking, and just plain fun. I love the idea that some of lifes surprises have no obvious explanation. If you have a child who seems to get lost in imaginary play, I am sure they will enjoy and relate to this book. This inspired us to create our own secret garden. Great project idea. We love our Martin Waddell books, and this is no exception. Can't say enough good about this book.

A nice story with unique illustrations.
My five year old son and I enjoy this book.It's a keeper!The illustrations are very different and we found them so interesting.

Wonderful Illistration
I purchased the book in order to do a presentation on it for my Children's Literature class.The illistrations are in fact what orinally caught my eye.I was doing stock at work and came across it and thought it was so colorful and interesting and thought, what child wouldn't be fascinated by this book.I eventually read the book and came to find that the story is great as well.I think it would encourage any child to use their imagination as well as to explore different artistic mediums other than crayons and construction paper. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Children's 4-8 - Picturebooks    2. Children: Grades 1-2    3. Dreams    4. Fiction    5. Gardens    6. Imagination    7. Nature & the Natural World - Gardening    8. Sports & Recreation - General    9. Non-Classifiable   

Subjects:  1. Children's Baby - Picturebooks    2. Children's Books/Baby-Preschool    3. Nature & the Natural World - Gardening    4. Spanish: Grades 2-3    5. Fiction    6. Gardening    7. Readers    8. Spanish language   

Subjects:  1. Animals - General    2. Children's Books/Ages 4-8 Fiction    3. Children's songs, English    4. Children: Kindergarten    5. Gardening    6. Humorous Stories    7. Juvenile Music    8. Juvenile Nonfiction    9. Music - Songbooks    10. Nature & the Natural World - Gardening    11. Pests    12. Songs and music    13. Texts    14. United States   

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lovely, but...
I got a chance to see Mary Azarian's new alphabet book yesterday.I think her illustrations are heartwarming and lovely, and have enjoyed them for years in the Cook's Garden catalog and in books like The Plain Reader.I'malso a gardener and a former children's librarian ,and I enjoy seeinggardening depicted in children's books.However, I must say I was sadlydisapponted to see no people of color depicted in any of the illustrationsin this book.Surely Ms. Azarian must have met a nonwhite gardener at somepoint in her life; if not, that's sad, and she is welcome to come to myhouse and meet me before the next book. As a person of color I feltsaddened and left out as I looked through the pages; how would a smallchild (of any ethnicity) feel?Had it not been for this exclusion I wouldhave joyfully given this book five stars.

Illustrations match a Garden's Beauty
Mary Azarian was inspired by her own garden and has used the perfect form of illustration - woodcuts - to bring to life the alphabet of a garden.Read more

Subjects:  1. Alphabet    2. Children's Books/Ages 4-8 Fiction    3. Children: Preschool    4. Concepts - Alphabet    5. English language    6. Gardening    7. Gardens    8. Juvenile Fiction    9. Juvenile literature    10. Nature & the Natural World - Gardening    11. ABC books    12. Juvenile Fiction / Concepts / Alphabet   

Subjects:  1. Children's Books/Ages 4-8 Nonfiction    2. Gardening    3. Juvenile Nonfiction    4. Juvenile literature    5. Life cycles    6. Pumpkin    7. Science & Nature - Flowers & Plants    8. Spanish: Grades 1-2   

Subjects:  1. Children: Grades 3-4    2. Gardening    3. Juvenile Nonfiction    4. Juvenile literature    5. Pumpkin    6. Technology - Agriculture   

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to garden and discover PLANTS!!!!!!!!!!
this book is great for kids under 12 it teaches you that tomatoes are not always red.It'says when to plant and where to plant.what you need for your garden and what seeds to use. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Children's 9-12 - Nature / Guide Books    2. Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Nonfiction    3. Children: Grades 3-4    4. Cookery (Vegetables)    5. Gardening    6. Juvenile literature    7. Nature - General    8. Varieties    9. Vegetable gardening    10. Vegetables   

Subjects:  1. Activity Books - General    2. Children's Books/Ages 4-8 Nonfiction    3. Children: Grades 1-2    4. Cookery    5. Cookery (Pumpkin)    6. Crafts & Hobbies - General    7. Gardening    8. Handicraft    9. Juvenile Nonfiction    10. Juvenile literature    11. Pumpkin    12. Science & Nature - Flowers & Plants    13. Gardening: general interest    14. Handicrafts    15. Interactive & activity books & packs    16. Trees & wildflowers   

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beautiful book
This book is a wonderful combination of lovely words and beautiful illustrations.My 2 boys love the soothing sounds and colors so much we now have our own buddha in our garden.I got this book for my kids even if it is not a 'kids book', and many adults I show it to rush out to buy it, even if they don't know any kids to give it to.A gorgeous introduction to buddhism. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Buddhism    2. Children's Books/Ages 4-8 Fiction    3. Children: Grades 1-2    4. Enlightenment (Buddhism)    5. Fiction    6. Foundlings    7. Gardens    8. Juvenile Fiction    9. Nature & the Natural World - Gardening    10. People & Places - Asia    11. Religious - Other   

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A beautiful addition to any child's library!
When my son fell in love with all things blooming, I began my search for a book about flowers. I had been searching for a book that featured several different flower types and their names, as well as color illustrations. I was so pleased when I found Alison's Zinnia! Not only are there beautiful color paintings of the different blooms, there is also a narrative that teaches the ABC's. A few of the flower types are difficult to pronounce (even for the adults out there!), and how many girls do we really know named Xantippa? Also, I was a little disappointed that all the names featured in the book were little girls. I would have liked to see some boys thrown in the mix. Especially since I bought his book for my son. But I still think that the book is a priceless addition to our family library.

enchanting
My 4 year old daughter and I found this book light-hearted and enchanting.The illustrations are beautiful.The book flows smoothly from start to finish making it a very pleasurable read for both parent and child.Mydaughter brings this book to me on a daily basis and we have read it overand over again.Delightful!

Flowers A to Z
Anita Lobel's Alison's Zinnia is a unique alphabet book using a circular tale to lead the reader from A to Z. Each page has one line which begins with a girl's name and a flower for that particular letter and ends with agirl's name for the next letter, "Heather hosed a Hyacinth forIrene".The split page illustrations show a largedetailed paintingof the flower on top and the story line with the alphabet letter below thetext.I believe children will enjoy the challenge of the unusual names andthe flowers portrayed in the picture book.In the classroom it would be agreat children's literature rewrite.The students could use, for example,boys names and vegetables to create their own classroom version.Anotherexample of her beautiful art work and her ability to capture the details ofa flower are in The Rose in my Garden by Arnold and Anita Lobel. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Alphabet    2. Children's Books/Ages 4-8 Fiction    3. Children: Preschool    4. Concepts - Alphabet    5. Fiction    6. Flowers    7. Girls & Women    8. Nature & the Natural World - General    9. ABC books    10. Gardening: general interest    11. Juvenile Fiction / Girls & Women   

Subjects:  1. American - General    2. Children's 9-12 - Poetry / Plays    3. Children's Books/Ages 4-8 Nonfiction    4. Children's poetry, American    5. Children: Grades 2-3    6. Children: Kindergarten    7. Gardening    8. Gardens    9. Juvenile Nonfiction    10. Juvenile poetry    11. Poetry    12. Poetry - General    13. Preschool Nursery Rhymes / Poetry    14. Science & Nature - Flowers & Plants    15. Juvenile Nonfiction / Poetry / Humorous   

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Review
This is a great book for the novice gardener--whether you're an "innie" or an "outie" (where you garden--indoors or out).It has great ideas for kids gardening, such as fun containers (liketennis shoes) and a living teepee (poles with runner beans). I found itvery helpful and informative for the layperson's interest in beginninggardening, as well. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Activity Books - General    2. Children's Books/Ages 4-8 Nonfiction    3. Children: Grades 4-6    4. Crafts & Hobbies - General    5. Gardening    6. Indoor gardening    7. Juvenile Arts And Crafts    8. Juvenile Nonfiction    9. Juvenile literature    10. Gardening: general interest   

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An impressively written and illustrated tale of a multi-generational friendship
Featuring a bilingual text in both the English and the Spanish, Vegetable Dreams/Huerto Sonado by Dawn Jeffers features museum quality illustrations by Claude Schneider and is the story of a Erin, a young woman and her pursuit of a personal dream to grow and maintain a garden. Captivating young readers with an engaging and entertaining story line, Vegetable Dreams/Huerto Sonado follows Erin as she meets Mr. Martinez and their friendship which slowly progresses as the two of them care for her increasingly attractive and productive garden. A confidently recommended addition to school and community library bi-lingual picturebook collections, Vegetable Dreams/Huerto Soñado is an impressively written and illustrated tale of a multi-generational friendship, created and strengthened through the care and love for a simple vegetable garden.
Tomatoes, peppers, dreams and recollections, mixed with soft illustrations, gives you a heartfelt read.
Tomatoes, peppers, dreams and recollections, mixed with soft illustrations, gives you a heartfelt read.
happy gardening for kids
Rebeccasreads highly recommends VEGETABLE DREAMS - HUERTO SONADO as an enchanting tale of family, gardens, neighbors, friendship & growing food for the table.
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Subjects:  1. Children's 4-8 - Fiction - General    2. Children's Books/Ages 4-8 Fiction    3. Family - Multigenerational    4. Juvenile Fiction / Family / Multigenerational    5. Nature & the Natural World - Gardening    6. Social Issues - Friendship    7. Bilingual books    8. Children's 4-8    9. Children's 4-8 - Picturebooks    10. Friendship    11. Gardening / Vegetables    12. Vegetable gardening   

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A lovely piece which teaches kids about community
How is a community garden different from a personal backyard garden? Our Community Garden is a first-person lyrical story which brings together the goals and experiences of one Audrey Aubergine and her friends, who tend their community garden and play together there. Add folk art colorful illustrations and warm drawings and you have a lovely piece which teaches kids about community garden fellowship as they read the story of working together.
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Subjects:  1. California    2. Children's 4-8 - Picturebooks    3. Children: Preschool    4. Community gardens    5. Community life    6. Fiction    7. Gardening    8. Juvenile Fiction    9. Nature & the Natural World - Gardening    10. Nature & the Natural World - General    11. San Francisco    12. Social Issues - Community & Neighborhood    13. Juvenile Fiction / Cooking & Food    14. Juvenile Fiction / Nature & the Natural World    15. Picture books   

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Oh no?Oh Yes!
When I first heard that the Worm Queen in Kalamazoo (Mary Appelhof) had published a kids' book on vermicomposting, my reaction was cautious.Last year someone sent me one that was just too cute--and inaccurately showed red wigglers with eyes! Easy to follow, step-by-step instructions for young people
Written and illustrated by Michelle Eva Portman, Compost By Gosh! is a simple, rhyming children's book about the joy of making compost - the process of letting worms eat leftover food and turn into that material into something which is perfect for fertilizing plants. Easy to follow, step-by-step instructions for young people who want to make their own compost (under adult supervision) round out this excellent and very highly recommended instructional book for budding young gardeners.

What fun By Gosh
Great book! Fun, Funny, Educational, with a message yet! Read more

Subjects:  1. Children's 4-8 - Picturebooks    2. Children's Books/Ages 4-8 Fiction    3. Children: Grades 2-3    4. Juvenile Fiction / Science & Technology    5. Nature & the Natural World - Gardening    6. Children's 4-8    7. Composting    8. Earthworms    9. Fiction    10. Juvenile fiction    11. Science & Technology    12. Stories in rhyme    13. Vermicomposting