Gardeners books

Flower Garden

In this warm and sunny picture book, follow the progress of a little girl and her father as they put together a wonderful birthday surprise for mom: a window box flower garden.

After the pansies, tulips, daffodils, geraniums, and daisies are purchased and dad and daughter take them home on the bus, they're lovingly planted in the window box. Candles on the cake are lit—just as Mom walks in the door to find her daughter, her husband, and her birthday surprise.

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• amazon.com: https://amzn.to/45Med9T

The Curious Garden

One boy's quest for a greener world... one garden at a time.

While out exploring one day, a little boy named Liam discovers a struggling garden and decides to take care of it. As time passes, the garden spreads throughout the dark, grey city, transforming it into a lush, green world. 

This is an enchanting tale with environmental themes and breathtaking illustrations that become more vibrant as the garden blooms. Red-headed Liam can also be spotted on every page, adding a clever seek-and-find element to this captivating picture book.

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• amazon.com: https://amzn.to/3OUdiOz

Badger's Perfect Garden

2020 Growing Good Kids Book Award 2020-2021 Keystone to Reading Elementary Book Award List 2019 Florida Book Award - Bronze Medal It's springtime and Badger is ready to plant the perfect garden. He has spent months gathering and sorting seeds. It's been a lot of work but it's worth it. His friends Red Squirrel, Dormouse, and Weasel come to help. They weed. They rake. And finally, they plant. Afterwards, everyone celebrates, and Badger can already imagine the perfect rows of flowers and vegetables. But then a rainstorm comes and washes away the beautiful seeds. Badger's perfect garden is ruined. Or is it? Author Marsha Diane Arnold's gentle story will encourage young readers to think beyond plans and expectations and imagine the wonderful possibilities that may occur when life and nature have other ideas.

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• amazon.com: https://amzn.to/42lKdyF

Jack's Garden

You'll see seeds and seedlings, buds and leaves, birds and bugs and butterflies. And best of all, you'll watch the garden bloom.

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• amazon.com: https://amzn.to/3qqfzHc

The Gardener

Lydia Grace Finch brings a suitcase full of seeds to the big grey city, where she goes to stay with her Uncle Jim, a cantankerous baker. There she initiates a gradual transformation, bit by bit brightening the shop and bringing smiles to customers' faces with the flowers she grows. But it is in a secret place that Lydia Grace works on her masterpiece -- an ambitious rooftop garden -- which she hopes will make even Uncle Jim smile. Sarah Stewart introduces readers to an engaging and determined young heroine, whose story is told through letters written home, while David Small's illustrations beautifully evoke the Depression-era setting.

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• amazon.com: https://amzn.to/3OTPWsz

Sunflower House

A charming tale about inventive children who plant some summer fun.

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• amazon.com: https://amzn.to/3MTzllX

Lola Plants a Garden (Lola Reads)

How does your garden grow? Book-loving Lola is inspired by a collection of garden poems that she reads with her mommy. She wants to plant her own garden of beautiful flowers, so she and Mommy go to the library to check out books about gardening. They choose their flowers and buy their seeds. They dig and plant. And then they wait. Lola finds it hard to wait for her flowers to grow, but she spends the time creating her own flower book. Soon she has a garden full of sunflowers and invites all of her friends for cakes and punch and a story amongst the flowers. 

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• amazon.com: https://amzn.to/3OWPNV2

Watch a Strawberry Grow (Watch It Grow) 

In Watch a Strawberry Grow, early fluent readers learn how strawberries grow. Vibrant, full-colour photos and carefully levelled text will engage young readers as they learn about how this delicious berry is grown and harvested.

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• Amazon.es: https://amzn.to/2ANoU1Q

• Amazon.co.uk: https://amzn.to/3e9Oqgc

In the Garden

In this gently rhyming board book, a young boy creates a garden, one small action at a time. First, he digs in the dirt and plants seeds, then he adds soil, water, and some patience. With time, the seeds grow and the boy excitedly discovers what he has helped to make.

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• Amazon.es: https://amzn.to/2Z7Oo4j

• Amazon.co.uk: https://amzn.to/2T7ZVNi

Little Critter: A Green, Green Garden (I Can Read! My First Shared

Little Critter is going green! 

Little Critter learns that planting his own garden is a lot of fun and a lot of work. But the result--a green, green garden--is something he can cherish and enjoy.

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• Amazon.co.uk: https://amzn.to/2X7rnfk