A Gardener's Alphabet

This is an alphabet book in which each letter of the alphabet is given with a gardening-related word. For example, a is for arbor, b is for bulbs, c is for compost, etc. There is no story and some of the words are tricky, so this would be more of a lapsit read-aloud than an independent reading or storytime book. However, the illustrations are absolutely gorgeous so this book is worth sharing for that reason alone. Families that enjoy gardening or visiting gardens will particularly like this one.

Beautiful, bold woodcut-style artwork illustrating a garden concept for each letter of the alphabet. Some of them will raise a laugh -- wait until you see the gardener's face as she lugs the zucchini!

This is a lovely book. The illustrations are beautifully done, the vocabulary is carefully chosen - and the illustrations make very clear the meaning of unusual words like "xeriscape", but there's not much you can do for x anyway.

But, it's true. Every person in this book is white, and it really is a little weird. I don't live anywhere where I can consistently expect the people I meet to be white, so it would never occur to me to draw a whole book full of people of just that one race. I wonder where the author lives that it wouldn't occur to her to draw a more normal sample of the population.

It's not a bad book, it's just - that sort of thing is very obvious, and kinda annoying.

This is really a beautiful book, and if it had had something to say about gardening I would probably have kept it.

A Gardener’s Alphabet goes through the alphabet word by word with words associated with gardening on each page. The highly detailed woodcut art work that accompanies each page really brings to life each word. For many urban and other students with no background knowledge on gardening, the vocabulary in this book will be very new. I could see teachers going through a few letters each day accompanying a plant life or garden unit for their classroom. The authors uses all short sounds for the vowels except for the o where the author used an r controlled vowel for the o. As long as this is directly explained to children there shouldn’t be confusion.

This book has a great way of explaining the ABC's in gardener terms. For children who like to help their mothers around the garden, this is an excellent way to learn garden vocabulary. The pictures were great to look at. The vocabulary word matched up to the drawings quite nice.

This is a great informational book for kids. This book follows the alphabet and for each letter there is a gardening term. Great for kids to practice their ABC's, learn new vocabulary, and learn a little about gardening. Has awesome illustrations. I find nonfiction books with drawn pictures instead of photographs can be more fun for kids to look at.