This delightful read will inform young “environmental chefs” about the do’s and don’ts of composting. Mary McKenna Siddals draws you in by mentioning familiar household items that can be composted, but also introduces some not-so-familiar composting substances that will leave students wanting to dig deeper (both figuratively and literally)!
A young girl growing up on a farm doesn’t share her father’s love of farming, but finds her own way to be helpful when she takes in a baby dragon to raise.
Illustrated with vibrant photographs, this story explains how food and garden scraps break down into compost. Follow along as a family composts their table scraps (even their old Jack-o-lantern!) in the backyard bin, eventually using the resulting compost to enrich the soil for the spring garden.
New city. New school. Michael is feeling all alone—until he discovers the school garden! There’s so many ways to learn, and so much work to do. Taste a leaf? Mmm, nice and tangy hot. Dig for bugs? “Roly-poly!” he yells. But the garden is much more than activities outdoors: making school garden stone soup, writing
Thomas Jefferson loved to grow peas, and every year hosted a contest to see who could bring the first peas to the table. Maya’s class decides to hold the same contest, and Maya has a few secrets up her sleeve that she hopes will help her win. Will her plants be the first ones in
Rosa loves her grandmother’s mud soup but Josh is afraid to try it. Could it really be made of mud? The book includes a recipe for “mud” soup.
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.
Charlie and his grandfather spend their summer growing a patch of watermelons, and waiting for the perfect one to wish on.
Velma has just started first grade and is trying to live up to the expectations set by her two marvelous older sisters. But no one even remembers poor Velma’s name! That all changes when she takes a class trip to a butterfly conservatory and a monarch perches on her finger and refuses to budge for days!
It’s hard being the new kid in school, especially when you don’t speak English. On her second day with her new class Farah takes a trip to the apple orchard where she discovers that many things in her new home are just like the things she left behind.