A Kid’s Guide to Good Gardening
A month by month guide to planning and growing your own garden. Each month provides a description of what needs to happen during that month to grow a successful garden.
Seasons
It’s Harvest Time
A fold-out rhyming book showing the progress of a seed, into a plant, then into a crop.
It Happens in the Month of March
March is a time for change and renewal, winter turns into spring, and everything awakens from its deep slumber. In this book you will find an overview of things that historically happened in March, and things that still occur during this month.
Golden Delicious: A Cinderella Apple Story
Read this true story about how the golden delicious apple was discovered, and how it became “The New Apple” to eat during the early 1900s.
The Beeman
It’s beekeeping season, and Grandpa is teaching his grandchild all about bees, hives, and the process involved to make honey. This book offers wonderful illustrations and descriptions of bees and beekeeping equipment to extract honey from the hive. Enjoy the simple rhymes in this book with a plate of warm biscuits and honey!
Our Apple Tree
This story celebrates the life of an apple tree through every season of the year. Readers will learn about the tree coming to life in the spring, fruit starting to grow in the summer, harvesting in the fall, and the rest it requires throughout the winter. The readers will also come to realize that humans
Mama, is it Summer Yet?
In the last, chilly days of winter, a young boy longs for summer. His mother points out all of the signs of the changing season: buds swelling on trees, ducklings on the pond, seeds sprouting in the garden…. and they celebrate together when summer finally arrives by eating ripe, red, strawberries.
And then it’s Spring
A young boy and his dog are sick of winter, so they plant a garden and begin to wait. And wait, and wait. Just when it seems as though the brown will never become green, spring magically appears! This book is a quick read that benefits from paying close attention to the beautifully illustrated pages.
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.”
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?