How does my garden grow?

Gerda Muller

Book - 2020

Sophie lives in the city, and her vegetables come from the supermarket. Then she goes to visit her grandparents in the countryside -- and soon discovers how much there is to learn about how things grow! Sophie helps her grandfather through the different seasons, finding out about mulching onions, eating flowers, weeding, bees, making salad, catching beetles, digging, earthing up, picking and composting. When winter comes, Sophie has to go home -- but her grandfather has one last surprise for her.

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Subjects
Genres
picture books
Picture books
Children's stories Pictorial works
Livres d'images
Published
Edinburgh, Scotland : Floris Books 2020.
Language
English
French
Main Author
Gerda Muller (author)
Edition
Second edition
Item Description
Originally published in French: Paris, France : l'ecole des loisirs, 2013.
This translation originally published: 2014.
Physical Description
1 volume (unpaged) : colour illustrations ; 29 x 31 cm
ISBN
9781782507291
Contents unavailable.
Review by School Library Journal Review

K-Gr 3-This warm story of a child's summer at her grandparents' French country farm lovingly describes basic gardening techniques. As Sophie and Granddad John work together, city girl Sophie learns how to prepare a plot and then plants seeds, waters them, and watches the seedlings grow into productive plants. She helps harvest and eat the peas, radishes, and green beans that come from her garden instead of a supermarket. Fresh colors abound in the illustrations of Sophie, her grandparents, and her new friends. Creatures important to gardeners-birds, butterflies, bees, rabbits, bats, moles, worms, slugs, snails, and grubs-are beautifully pictured, as are the vegetables harvested throughout the summer. Sophie helps with autumn garden chores and late harvests as well as winter preparations during weekend visits. When spring comes again, Sophie creates a garden on her balcony with a friend. This combination of engaging story and gardening information will delight and teach readers.-Frances E. Millhouser, formerly at Fairfax County Public Library, VA (c) Copyright 2012. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

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