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Best Picture Books about Gardening
Gardening is a pleasant activity for all age. It may feel a bit dirty to work through the fertile soil and touching the fertilizer, with shirt wet with sweat. But it will all paid off with result later, isn’t it Superkids? Not to mention if the seed with plant grow into our favorite fruit and vegetables. Now, here are books related to gardening we can read before start planting.
Isabella’s Garden
The Australian author Glenda Millard’s book is so colorful with illustration by Rebecca Cool. What’s in Isabella’s garden along the year? It’s changes across seasons. The book tells about the journey taken by the seeds Miranda plants in her garden. The seed slowly grow fertile, unnoticed by children who play cheerfully around it. Glenda is known as a talented poet who has a thing to select simple words for kids.
And Then It’s Spring
The book is a collaboration of author Julie Fogliano and Erin E Stesd, the winner of Caldecott Medal for book illustration. Surely it’s anything but a disappointment, Superkids. It’s about a boy in Europe who wants the winter to be over soon. He is tired to see snow everywhere and can’t wait to enjoy brown soil and green leaves. The illustration is so detail with interesting story telling.
Flower Garden
Live in an apartment is not an excuse to not have a garden. In “Flower Garden”. we got to see how a family who live in an apartment makes it’s tiny garden. The little girl and dad go to the store for the plants. Then they come home by bus and plan the garden to make. They plant it as a gift for mom’s birthday. The book is written by author Eve Bunting illustrated so real by Kathryn Hewitt.
Planting a Rainbow
A mother and her child are having a plan of ‘planting a rainbow.’ Given the fact that they live in a four seasons country, the road to their planting is quite challenging. It starts with autumn preparation and seeding in spring. They journey ends with a beautiful garden of colorful flowers. Planting a Rainbow” is Lois Ehlert’s only work.
City Green
What do we have when a group of people in a city work together to clean up the street? How do Mary, Miss Rosa and their neighbors transform a vacant property into a convenient house for flowers and vegetables? That’s what “City Green” is trying to say. The book is written and illustrated by DyAnne DiSalvo-Ryan. Psstt….this guy uses watermark, pencil and crayon for the illustration.
HAFIDA INDRAWATI
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