Concetta Kennedy

The Enchanting World of Garden Irene McGeeny is a cute children's book about a girl named Garden Irene, who tells her classmates one day in social studies that she lives in an underground castle. I remember being amazed at castles when I first read about them, so I can just imagine that a statement like that would bring about such excitement in a classroom!

Naturally everyone doesn't believe poor Garden Irene - the author states that she came up with an unusual name so that people will remember her story. She goes home and tells her parents what she did, and her parents - especially her father - are very disappointed with her. And the rest of the story goes on from there.

I think this is a great, cute story for tweens. My only real negative is the drawings were all in black and white and it would have been nice to have seen at least a few color drawings.… (more)