Kid's Garden Books |
| We've gathered together a wonderful crop of children's garden books that value nature, community, and cycles of growth. These children's picture and story books about flower gardens, butterflies and earthworms are fun and beautifully illustrated to help children celebrate the joys of planting, cultivating, and learning about the wonders of nature. We ship Priority or First Class Mail. Normal shipping times are 3-4 days. |
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A Child's Garden A Child's Garden - 60 ideas to make any garden come alive (a parent's guide). A Child's Garden offers a wide range of innovative examples showing how to create special places in which children can experience nature on their own home turf. Here are child-friendly ponds, places for pets, private refuges. paths, mazes, furniture, peepholes, and scores of ideas for creative play areas that fit perfectly into adult gardens.
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Flower Garden A comforting, richly illustrated story about a birthday surprise. An urban African-American girl and her father buy plants, potting soil, and a window box, and put together a colorful gift for the child's mother. Rhyming verse carries the brief story, while wonderful, full-color illustrations present scenes from novel angles, and depict a loving family with a sense of intimacy, sincerity, and joy.
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Sunflower House A little boy plants sunflower seeds and watches them grow into a round wall of stems with golden flowers. After playing in the "sunflower house" all summer, he and his friends collect the seeds to sow for next summer's flowers.
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Planting A Rainbow A dazzling celebration of the colorful variety in a flower garden and the cyclical excitement of gardening. This is a simple, stylized introduction to the joys of gardening, showing the varieties of blooms and bright colors that grow in a flowerbed.
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Eating The Alphabet - Fruits & Vegetables From A-Z ON BACKORDER This appetizing alphabet book shows fruits and vegetables so juicy and alive, you'll wish they could jump off the page and into your mouth. Just right for introducing toddlers to the mysteries of endive, kiwifruit and papaya. Age 1-5.
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Wacky World of Worms Sammy the redworm takes you through the abc's of starting a home or classroom worm bin. In the process, you learn lots of facts about earthworms and what they do in nature. The Wacky World of Worms entertains as it teaches, providing to-do exercises that illustrate lessons, puzzles to complete, and extra project ideas to try.
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Waiting For Wings Every spring, butterflies emerge and dazzle the world with their vibrant beauty. But where do butterflies come from? How are they born? What do they eat--and how? With a simple, rhyming text and glorious color-drenched collage, the book provides clear answers to these and other questions as it follows the life cycle of four common butterflies. Complete with butterfly & flower facts and guide to planting a butterfly garden.
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