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 Gardening
Books
River Falls Public Library
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Planting the seed to good reading
Fiction
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Flower Garden by Eve Bunting
E Bun
Vibrant oil paintings convey the story of a young girl
who, helped by her father prepares a flower garden as a birthday surprise
for her mother. (Ages 2-5)
- The Tiny Seed by Eric Carle
E Car
Collage illustrations and simple text tell the story
of a life cycle of a plant , as told through the adventure of a tiny
seed. (Ages 3-8)
- Planting a Rainbow by Lois Ehlert
E Ehl
A mother and child plant a flower garden, and
imagining they are using all of the colors of the rainbow. (Ages 4-8)
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Weslandia by Paul Fleischman
E Fle
School is over and Welsey plants a garden and learns
the crop that comes up provides him with clothing, food, and drink. As the
summer progresses everyone becomes curious about how Wesley is spending his
summer vacation, about this boy, his uniqueness and the remarkable looking
fruit he grows. (Ages5-9)
- I’m a Seed by Jean Marzollo
E Mar
Very early reader done with paper collage
illustrations in which two seeds have a continual conversation about their
growth, and change as one becomes marigold flowers, and the other becomes a
pumpkin plant. (Ages 4-6)
- The Flower Alphabet Book by Jerry Pallota
E Pal
A collaboration of words and pictures, with each
letter portrayed through a beautiful flower . The border of each page
carries out with much detail in illustration additional information about
the flower. (Ages 3-7)
- The Garden in Our Yard by Greg Henry Quinn
E Qui
Two children talk about the garden they create
with their parents, and the uses of the things they grow. (Ages 2-6)
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The Garden by I. San
E San
Explains about seeds, bulbs, and flowers (Ages 4-7).
- Pumpkin, Pumpkin by Jeanne Titherington
E Tit
Delicate colored pencil drawing tell the story of
Jamie, who plants a pumpkin seed, watches it grow,and carves it for a
jack-o-lantern, and saves the seeds to plant and begin the cycle over again.
(Ages 3-7).
Non-Fiction
- Compost! Growing Gardens from your Garbage by Linda Glaser
+ Glas
Aimed at the very young child, this book describes
what composting is, what it is
and how to go about it. (Ages 4-7)
- Garden Crafts for Kids: 50 Great Reasons to Get Your
Hands Dirty by Diane Rhoades
+ 635.9 Rho
This colorful how-to book will offer young budding
gardeners an opportunity to
develop green thumbs with 50 fun activities, projects and experiments.
(Ages 7-12)
- Vegetables,Vegetables by Fay Robinsin
+ 635.72
Real photos, along with very simple text,
introduce vegetables and aspects of growing them to young new readers. (Ages
3-6)
- Growing Things by Angela Wilkes
+ 635
In the typical Usborne Publishing style of explaining
all instructions in words and pictures this book will an opportunity is
provided for children to grow all sorts of interesting plants. (Ages
6-8)
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