Garbage Helps Our Garden Grow: A Compost Story
By Linda Glaser
This book features a clear, simple introduction to composting through photos depicting children in the various stages of the process. Rather than appeal to the “icky” nature of worms, the book presents composting in a practical manner. If you’re thinking of composting or just want to learn more about it, the facts are straightforward and informative. Introducing greener processes, like composting, will help to inform and empower the future generations and protect our planet.
Planting Seeds
By Nancy Elizabeth Wallace
This board books combines different stages of the plant cycle with counting skills. The simple paper cutout bunnies increase in number with each gardening activity until there is a feast for ten bunnies. The colors are vivid, the story is easy to follow and the book is great to share with a youngster learning to count.
Rose’s Garden
By Peter H. Reynolds
Dedicated to Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy and her family due to their endeavors in the creation of the Greenway Conservancy and Park in Boston, Reynolds’ book traces the journey of a young girl named Rose. After traveling the world in a teapot, she plants a garden with international seeds in hopes of bringing together the neighborhood. Through perseverance, determination and patience, Rose’s garden finally blooms. The illustrations truly set the tone in the story as the books transforms from gray tones to beautiful watercolors.
My Garden
By Kevin Henkes
While working hard with her mother in the garden, a young girl’s imagination blossoms with the thoughts of her own garden. A place with jellybean bushes, chocolate bunnies and invisible carrots, her garden will inspire any reader to dream of their own garden. The illustrations are whimsically colorful and appeal to any reader. It’s a great book for anyone ready for warm days and blooming gardens.
Children’s book reviews are written by Andrea Dochney who works in the children’s section of the Oakland Public Library.