Display: How Does Your Garden Grow?

By Melissa Assaly

The story of how a mother and child come to appreciate the produce they grow as they plant their very own family garden. Tips about living green and gardening as a family are also included.

We Are the Gardeners

By Joanna Gaines

The Gaines family shares their experiences with their own family garden. The struggles, the triumphs, and the lessons that they have learned.

Dig In!:12 Easy Gardening Projects Using Kitchen Scraps

By Kari A. Cornell

These step-by-step instructions will help you to be able to grow your own garden from kitchen scraps. Learn how to save leftovers and environother food items to reuse them to help your garden grow!

Errol's Garden

By Gillian Hibbs

Errol lives in a space where he doesn't have room to garden even though he loves gardening. He searches for a space outside to grow things and discovers a solution. Errol's garden unites the diverse community in a positive way.

In My Garden

By Charlotte Zolotow

During each season a little girl describes what she loves most about her garden.

Plant, Sow, Make & Grow

By Esther Coombs

With this low-stress approach to gardening, younger gardeners will enjoy learning how to manage their own garden. There are many tips and tricks to help you get started, ways to use recycled materials to make gardening tools, and other fun craft ideas.

Comments

Funny Farm by Mark Teague 2009

There are things I liked about Mark Teague's newest book, Funny Farm , and things I didn't like. Where should I start? I'll do the "didn'ts" first. The illustrations show animals personified. Well, some of the animals are. The main characters, Edward, and his farm family relatives, all dogs, are humanized. They stand upright, do farm chores, eat at a table, wear clothes, knit (yes, with paws) and sleep in beds. Most everybody else on and around the farm, who are also animals, act like animals. They are outside, roll in mud, live in the barn, and require care from their owners. It struck me the most on the page spread where there are pigs playing in puddle in the rain and Edward, a black and white boxer, watches from inside the house. I thought "You're a dog! Go play with them!" But, alas, he can't, seeing as how he goes through his entire visit to the farm wearing a suit and red bow tie. Another picture that bothered me was the maple syrup pa...

The Girl Who Could Fly by Victoria Forester 2008

J Fiction 328 pages I almost didn't finish this book. I got to Chapter 4, and was just about ready to quit (a kind of slow story about a girl, name of Piper McCloud, who discovers she can fly, parents freak out, she becomes a social outcast, yadda, yadda) but suddenly, right there in Chapter 4, the story takes a sharp turn and becomes really interesting . Piper finds herself in the company of others like her, but not "fliers", and under the care and authority of Dr. Hellion. I won't even tell you any more. Read this book. Forester does a great job of keeping you wondering who's the good guy and who's the bad? Piper is a likeable, strong, endearing character that girl readers will enjoy. But don't NOT give it to boys! The main male character is an extremely intelligent young man who is one of the ones you wonder about . . . good or bad? This is a good one, well worth your time.

Review: Super Boba Cafe

Super Boba Café By Nidhi Chanani New York: Amulet Books, 2023. Comics. 215 pages. 14-year-old Aria is excited to spend her summer in San Francisco getting quality time with her Nainai. She loves helping at her grandmother's Super Boba Café. But she can't help but notice that her grandmother is acting strange and secretive. She refuses to let Aria into the kitchen at all and she disappears at the same time each night without telling Aria where she goes. Meanwhile, Aria is eager to drum up more business for Super Boba Café. She gets a major windfall when the shop cat, Bao, surprises them by having kittens, and Aria realizes this is a major social media opportunity. She knows this will help Nainai's shop, but she is apprehensive to get back on social media after a terrible cyberbullying experience she had back home. As the shop starts to get busier, Nainai is more and more anxious about her secret project. This prompts Aria to investigate with help from her Nainai's neighb...

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