Flower Garden

This was a pleasant primary text with a distinctly urban point of view describing a young girl's effort to plant a flower box outside the window of her family's high-rise apartment. It's a rhyming text and the illustrations are beautifully done. There is a slight twist at the end of the text revealing the girl's purpose for all her efforts and the story ends sweetly.

I liked this children's picture book. The plot features a little girl and her father going to the store to buy flowers to plant in a window box as a surprise for the mother's birthday. I like how the book uses repetitive words and phrases and the rhyming pattern the author chose to use creates a steady fluent read aloud. The print is large, short and purposeful and the pictures are colorful and realistic. Many children would like this book and be able to relate to it.

The sweet story of a girl and her dad buying flowers in their vibrant urban neighborhood and then returning home to plant a window box garden as a surprise for Mom's birthday. The gorgeous, colorful spreads paint the narrative in fascinating detail, with shifting perspectives and flowers as a recurring motif. The gently rhyming text is perfectly paced for story time.

In my opinion this is another wonderful book by Eve Bunting's. This poetic picture book, "Flower Garden" is beautifully illustrated with big bold colors and immense detail. The characters and street corners look very soft and realistic. The poem tells a story of a young girl's journey from a shop to her home where she creates a flower box for her mother's birthday. My favorite quality of this book is the word choice, which creates a nice flow from page to page. For example in the book one page reads, "Garden in a window box/ High above the street." On the next page, "Where butterflies can stop and rest/ And ladybugs can meet." The experiences of this child are relatable and appropriate for the young audience who also have worked hard to show more create a gift. show less

A delightful tale of a little girl who makes a beautiful spring flower box. But why was it so important to her to create this spring flower garden?

This pleasant verse will appeal to young readers. The illustrations, originally done as oil paintings on paper and reproduced here for this book, are captivating. A book certain to charm readers, young and old alike.

Highly recommended.

Large text and simple couplets show a young girl and her father creating a beautiful windowsill flower garden for her mother's birthday. Shows gardening in an urban upper floor apartment is possible, father-daughter time, and a family of color.

This book is about a little girl and her father putting together a flower box to put in their apartment window for the mother's birthday. This book doesn't have much message in it, it is quite simplistic and straightforward. However, it does show a different way of living; most books portray families living in houses, but this one portrays them living in an apartment. This could probably relate to some of the kids, because not all of them live in a house and doing things like planting a garden looks very different for them. Also, the characters are dark-skinned, which will also relate to some of the kids. The illustrations are done in paint and are fairly realistic. I would read this to my class, especially if i knew that it would show more relate to some of the kids. show less