picture books on gardening

I'm sure you all have your favorite children's picture books that feature gardens and gardening.

I'll have to go digging to get some of my titles (ha ha!), but two are at my fingertips just now.

Tops & Bottoms by Janet Stevens tells a Bre'r Rabbit type story about a workaholic hare and a shambling lazy bear who decide to garden together.

Cinder Edna by Ellen Jackson is one I'm just returning to the library. Edna is a fun go-getter, and she ends up very happily wed to the younger prince, and they live in a solar heated cottage behind the palace and grow vegetables.

A Child's Garden of Verses illustrated by Ruth Sanderson was part of my childhood library. It had a purple cover. I had to do some Google searching to find inside illustrations...and I don't recognize a single one. While it's not really about gardening, as a kid I was fascinated with the idea of growing words from plants because of this book. No idea why, though.

Linnea in Monet's Garden by Christina Bjork
Carrie Hepple's Garden by Ruth Craft

Planting a Rainbow by Lois Ehlert
Growing Vegetable Soup Lois Ehlert

I second Linnea in Monet's Garden.

I've also dug out
the Farmer by Mark Ludy and two of my most favorites

Anna's Garden Songs, poems by Mary Q. Steele, illustrations by Lena Anderson
Jody's Beans illustrated by Judith Allibone.

I was sorting picture books last evening and found Jack's Garden by Henry Cole. It runs on in the same way as This is the House that Jack Built, with each page building on the previous. There are lots of naturalist correct drawings of plants , bugs and other critters, but I was ultimately disappointed that Jack only planted flowers - and some of them are even weedy, such as buttercups and hawkweed; species I've never had a need to nurture for them to overrun the place. I've decided not to keep it.

>6 2wonderY: So you are going to......wait for it.....weed it? *bah dum chh*

**howling in my head**

I recently had to re-locate a short bookshelf where I house many of my picture books and came across this lovely illustrated book of garden poems

The gardener by Sarah Stewart

and the rather rare
Gardener George goes to town by Susan Moxley

Fritzis Abenteuer im Gemüsegarten



The author's father is a famous actor in Austria, and the two of them have done an audio version that can be downloaded from the book. Back when I read at the local school the kids enjoyed it.

>11 MarthaJeanne: And why is the snail such a pal in the veggie garden? That carrot-top is cute.

>10 nrmay: Had to add the book to add a non-blurry cover:

>11 MarthaJeanne: The snail shrinks Fritzi down, and together they harvest the veggies to make his grandmother a vegetable soup.

>12 2wonderY:

thanks! I changed the cover in my collection.