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Written by Richard Lyons
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GARDENING BOOKS FOR CHILDREN
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Planting a Rainbow-Bold
and exuberant pictures show the planting of a family garden. Bulbs,
seeds, and seedlings grow into a brilliant rainbow of colorful flowers
that are picked and carried home. And next year, a rainbow can grow all
over again! Full-color, die-cut illustrations. |
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A Child's Garden-This
gorgeous, full-color exploration of the family garden--stuffed with
resourceful ideas and easy--to-complete projects--shows how to create
thriving gardens that serve both the child's need for creative play and
the adult's yearning for beauty and serenity. 100 full-color photos
7-city author tour. . |
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My Indoor Garden-There
are few gardeners of any age who would not benefit from this companion
to My Backyard Garden (1998), in which Lerner offers an alternative to
yardless or winterbound young plant-tenders. Combining savvy,
systematic advice with pleasantly muted watercolors of easily
identifiable single specimens and entire windowsill collections, she
goes beyond the rudiments of light, food, water, and general care to
discuss disease control, artificial lighting, and such challenging
techniques as stratification and propagation. Her reasonably low-budget
regimen permits prepared fertilizer, but not chemical insecticides, and
she suggests adult help for any activity needing a sharp tool. The
plants she mentions throughout are all common, inedible ones with
distinctive flowers or foliage; some, such as petunias or rex begonias,
are hard to keep healthy and attractive indoors, but most are easy to
nurture. Of course this isn't the only volume on the subject, but it
stands out for its low pressure approach and methodical coverage of the
basics.
Copyright ©1999, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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Roots, Shoots, Buckets & Boots-Green
thumbs and non-green thumbs alike will fall in love with Roots, Shoots,
Buckets, & Boots, a remarkably fun and informative introduction to
the wonderful world of gardening--and more specifically, gardening with
children. |
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Gardening Wizardry for Kids-An
amazing collection of more than 300 extraordinary experiments and
projects with apple seeds, beans, potatoes, fruit pits, vegetables,
herbs and everything that grows. Contains a glossary, reading list,
full-color, how-to illustrations, and a bonus chapter that lists seed
catalogs that kids can obtain from sources in the U.S. and Canada,
mostly free. Perfect for home or classroom. |
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HollyHock Days-This
book starts at planning a simple garden for children and adults and
closes with a friendly conversation about garden critters. Each section
mingles garden memories from children to grandparents, and includes
poems, delicate illustrations, lists of plants, and ideas in a gentle
and nostalgic way. This book inspires me to plan garden time even after
a hard day or a sleepy early morning rising. |
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Starting With Nature: Plant-The
United States is home to many kinds of plants tiny wildflowers, giant
sunflowers and everything in between. This addition to the Starting
with Nature series contains detailed illustrations, fascinating facts,
projects and activities that tell kids
* How to recognize common poisonous plants
* How a seed turns into a plant
* What plants need to grow |
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Jumbo Book of Gardening-This
information-packed book has something for everyone, child or adult.
Sections cover general information; fruit, vegetable, and flower
gardens; noninvasive native plants; gardens that attract wildlife; and
group projects. Projects range from a few annuals in a container and
thickets designed with native wildlife in mind to community gardens.
Directions are clear, with plenty of diagrams and illustrations
featuring a multicultural roundup of children, as well as youngsters in
wheelchairs. The sketches are meticulously executed, but they are
colored only in shades of gray and green; kids find out that a flower
is a brilliant red, but they can't see the real color. Appended
material includes lists of plants for various regions of North America.
Gardening organizations are mentioned in the text, though there is no
comprehensive list of addresses or Web sites, and there is no
bibliography. Such imperfections are minor, however, considering the
years of pleasure gardeners will gather from these pages. Catherine
Andronik
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved
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Green Thumbs-Kids
will be creating their own gardens in no time with a guide to indoor
and outdoor gardening projects that offers a way for kids to get
exercise, fresh air, and learn about nature all at the same time. |
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Gardening With Children-Richardson
creates an unusual approach to gardening, a guide to including children
of all ages in the garden. Divided into two main sections, "Including
Children in the Gardening Activity" and "Making Gardening Fun for
Children," the author provides all the basics of gardening--planning,
planting, composting, soil preparation--but shows how to include
children in the process, how to interpret and teach, and how to engage
them fully and joyfully in the entire process from planting to
gathering flowers and eating the vegetables they have helped to grow. |
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Discover the Seasons-Author/illustrator
Diane Iverson introduces the young child to the wonders of the changing
seasons in Discover the Seasons. Rich illustrations and sensitive
poetry vividly capture the unique spirit of each part of the year:
celebration for spring, learning for summer, work for fall and rest for
winter. Each theme is then explored through hands-on activities that
adults and children can share. Tasty recipes using freshly gathered
fruits and vegetables provide the final, irresistible highlight for
each season. |
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Bumblebee, Bumblebee, Do You Know Me?-On
each double-page spread the text gives clues to the identification of
the flower shown on the facing page. The book is more about learning
the names of insects and flowers than about guessing anything (the
answer is provided without giving the listener a chance to guess), but
the art is characteristically clear and attractive and the book will be
useful in many preschool and early childhood settings. |
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