Fiction

• Bunting, Eve
  Flower Garden
  Harcourt, Brace and Company 1994
  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)
• Carle, Eric
  The Tiny Seed
  Picture Book Studio , 1987
  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)
• Ehlert, Lois
  Planting a Rainbow
  Harcourt, Brace and Javonovich, 1988
  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)
• Fleischman, Paul
  Weslandia 
  Candlewick Press, 1999
  E Wes
  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.  (Ages 5-9)
• Fleming, Denise
  Muncha, Muncha , Muncha
  Anthneum, 2002
  E Fle
  After planting the garden he has dreamed about for years, farmer McGreely, keeps devising ingenious ways of keeping out the troublesome pesky rabbits.
• Marzollo, Jean
  I'm a Seed
  Scholastic, 1996
  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)
• Pallota, Jerry
  The Flower Alphabet Book
  Charlesbridge Press 1988
  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)
• Quinn, Greg Henry
  The Garden in Our Yard
  Scholastic, Inc. 1995
  E Qui
  Children talk about the garden they create with their parents, and the uses of the things they grow.  (Ages 2-6)
• Sanchex, I.
  The Garden
  Child Press Choice, 1991
  E San
  Explains about seeds, bulbs, and flowers. (Ages 4-7)
• Titherington, Jeanne
  Pumpkin, Pumpkin
  Greenwillow Books, 1986
  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)

NonFiction

• Glaser, Linda
  Compost! Growing Gardens from your Garbage
  Millbrook Press, 1996
  + 635 Gla
  Aimed at young children, this book describes what composting is, what it does and how to go about it.  (Ages 4-7)
• Pupeza, Lori
  Organic Gardens
  Abdo Publishing, 2002
  + 635 Pup
  Describes how to make an organic garden
• Rhoades, Diane
  Garden Crafts for Kids: 50 Great Reasons to Get Your Hands Dirty
  Sterling Publishing Co., Inc. 1995
  + 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)
• Robinson, Fay
  Vegetables, Vegetables
  Children's Press, 1994
  + 635.72 Rob
  Real photos, along with very simple text, introduce vegetables and aspects of growing them to young new readers.  (Ages 3-6)
• Pupeza, Lori Kinstad
  Flower Gardens
  ABDO Publishing, 2002
  + 635.9 Pup
  Provides information and advice on choosing flowers, preparing a place for them to grow, and then planting and caring for them.
• Wilkes, Angela.
  Growing Things
  Usborne Publishing, Ltd. 1984
  + 635.9 Wil
  In the typical Usborne style of explaining all instructions in words and pictures, an opportunity is provided for children to grow all sorts of interesting plants .  (Ages6-8)

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