Library Adventures: The Pea-shoot challenge

Library Adventures is our free, year-round reading for pleasure programme for children aged 4-11.

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Updated July 8, 2025
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The secret garden.
Brill, Calista.
Paper Book
Based on the beloved classic children's novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett, this edition of The Secret Garden is a beautifully illustrated hardcover picture book adaptation that all children will treasure. Once upon a time...a walled garden bloomed under the summer skies in the north of...
Grow your own for kids /
Collins, Chris, gardener.
Paper Book
In Grow Your Own For Kids, Chris Collins shows how to sow and grow 10 easy vegetables that kids love to eat. Simple step-by-step sequences will guide and inspire them; presenting fun challenges such as growing the tallest sunflower and the largest pumpkin. A "letter to the grown ups"...
Grow your own vegetables in pots and containers : a practical guide to growing food in small spaces
Peacock, Paul
Paper Book
This book is aimed at the majority of us who live in terraced houses, high rise flats, town houses and semi-detached properties with a small garden and often nowhere to grow but the patio. It shows how to make the most of pots and planters; how to plan for a reasonable yield; and how never to run...
Tom's midnight garden.
Pearce, Philippa.
Paper Book
When his brother catches measles, Tom is sent away to stay with his aunt & uncle. What a boring summer it's going to be. But then, lying in bed one night, he hears the grandfather clock in the hall strike the hour of 13 o'clock. What can it mean?

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