THIS IS YOUR GARDEN by Maggie Smith, Crown, 1998

"In this gardening primer for very young children, a narrator
gently guides a child through the process of planting a garden,
from the tools and seeds to the key ingredients: tender loving
care and a lot of patience...illustrations...celebrate the glory...
with each turn of the page..."
--Booklist

"A sweet, colorful introduction to the world of gardening."
--Boston Herald

 

     

"This isn't a how-to book; instead
it's a celebration of the patience
amd eternal optimism of gardeners
of all ages...the illustrations...are
blooming with color and activity..."

--Pittsburgh Post Gazette

"Even the difficult notion of thinning
is handled well; recognizing that it's
hard...to root out a plant he or she has
grown from a seed...Perhaps best of all,
in the gathering exuberance of the little
girl's flowerbed, there is real provocation
to get the garden going, to see if the

 

glorious raucousness of Smith's pages can be duplicated in the earth."--Kirkus Review
 

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