Planning for Spring: Books About Gardening for KidsUnpublished

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Grow your own fruits, vegetables, and flowers! Become a gardener in any season with these fun and easy projects. You don't even need a garden space--many of these activities can be done by planting in containers to set on a porch or a patio or even in a window. Try your hand at growing potatoes...

A refreshing source of ideas to help your children learn to grow their own patch of earth, Gardening Lab for Kids encourages children to get outside and enjoy nature. This fun and creative book features 52 plant-related activities set into weekly lessons, beginning with learning to read...

Teach children that the greatest rewards come from patience, hard work, and learning from mistakes! In the #1 New York Times bestseller We Are the Gardeners, Joanna Gaines and the kids chronicle the adventures of starting their own family garden. From their failed endeavors,...

There was once a little gardener and his garden meant everything to him. He worked hard, very hard, but he was just too little (or at least he felt he was). In this gentle, beautiful tale, Emily Hughes, the celebrated author ofWild, departs from the larger than life Wild-girl...

It streaked through the sky on a perfect day in July and landed in the garden... When a mysterious red orb appears one day, the vegetables aren't sure what to make of it. They decide that it must be an alien tomato! They name her Allie and try to make her feel as welcome as...

A sweet  board book that introduces toddlers to the sights and sounds of the garden. Say hello, garden! The sun is up, and it's time to explore the natural world right outside your door. Caterpillars wiggle and butterflies fly as you follow a family on a sensory journey...

To make a new city feel like home, Anna gets involved with a community garden--and cultivates new friendships as well as flowers and vegetables--in the first book in the Friendship Garden series. It may be the orange and red season of fall, but eight-year-old Anna Fincher feels...

From a tiny seed to a huge, fold-out bloom, the transformative life cycle of a sunflower plays out in this bold read-aloud. A Sibert Honor Book! A Theodor Seuss Geisel Honor Book! To understand how a seed becomes a sunflower, you have to peek beneath the soil...