Garden Fun!: Indoors and out, in Pots and Small Spots ANNOTATION
Provides step-by-step instructions for twenty-eight indoor or outdoor gardening adventures, including a salad garden window box, a spiral flower garden, and a butterfly paradise in a patio pot.
FROM THE CRITICS
Children's Literature - Michael Chabin
Besides being fun and a great chance for adults and children to work together, growing a garden is one of the best introductions to science a child can have. This is the book to start with. From pizza gardens (flowers arranged in slices), to planting a butterfly caf�, raising a water garden (mind the oxygenating grasses), or even growing a giant pumpkin, all the information a child will need is right here. Illustrations are clear and engaging. The text is well written and handles complex ideas simply. There are projects that will fit almost everyone's circumstances, from yard-filling flag gardens to tiny terrariums in a bottle. Children who are bored by growing things to eat can even switch to growing things that eat, like Venus Fly Traps and other carnivorous plants. Addresses for suppliers of unusual seeds, supplies, and even worms are included. 2002, Williamson Publishing,
School Library Journal
Gr 2-5-This simple, straightforward book offers a variety of projects from a windowsill salad garden to a birdhouse made from a homegrown gourd. Whether young gardeners have a large backyard or only a window box available, there is an easy, fun activity here for everyone. Directions are clear and easy to follow, with helpful diagrams and black-and-white cartoon drawings. Adult help is required only occasionally, and readers are told to ask for guidance when necessary. A glossary explains many of the terms used (peat pots, perennials, thinning, topsoil), but it is annoying to have to turn to the back of the book each time a word is starred in the text. For youngsters who like to putter in the dirt and adults looking for group projects, this book will be helpful. For libraries with large juvenile garden collections, it's a supplementary purchase.-Beth Tegart, Oneida City Schools, NY Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information.
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