Mystery Vine
What is that mystery vine growing over in the garden? As summer progresses in to fall the mystery is solved. This book includes pumpkin recipes, gardening activities, and instructions to create your own classroom “book vine.”
Gardening
Sunflower House
A boy plants a circle of sunflower seeds in the spring and up grows a sunflower house! All summer long he plays in it with his friends, until one day the leaves start to turn brown and the sunflowers droop. Is it the end of the sunflower house forever?
Strega Nona’s Harvest
Every year Strega Nona plants a beautiful garden, and this year Big Anthony wants to plant one as well. When harvest day comes, Strega Nona’s kitchen is already overflowing with vegetables from her garden, so what will Big Anthony do with his?
The Ugly Vegetables
A Chinese family grows a garden that is different from everyone else’s in the neighborhood. Instead of beautiful flowers, their garden grows strange vegetables. When it’s time to harvest the veggies and make soup, everyone in the neighborhood comes by for a taste.
Whose Garden Is It?
While out for a walk, Mrs. McGee sees a beautiful garden. But whose garden is it? Does it belong to the gardener, or the woodchuck, or maybe even the breeze?
Watch Me Grow
A down-to-earth look at growing food in the city. The book includes colorful photographs of all types of urban gardens.
Watermelon Wishes
Charlie and his grandfather spend their summer growing a patch of watermelons, and waiting for the perfect one to wish on.
A Packet of Seeds
Annie’s family has moved to the prairie, and her mother is sad to leave her old life behind and start anew as a pioneer. Annie knows that the thing that will make her mother happy again is to plant a flower garden, just like the one she had back home.