Book Details:
Book Title: Picture A Garden by Linda Hornberg
Category: Middle-Grade Non-Fiction (Ages 8-12), 160 pages
Genre: Children's Non-Fiction.
Publisher: Peanut Butter Publishing
Publication Date: January 28, 2025.
Content Rating: G: Topics only include gardening and being outdoors.
Book Title: Picture A Garden by Linda Hornberg
Category: Middle-Grade Non-Fiction (Ages 8-12), 160 pages
Genre: Children's Non-Fiction.
Publisher: Peanut Butter Publishing
Publication Date: January 28, 2025.
Content Rating: G: Topics only include gardening and being outdoors.
What springs to mind when you hear the word GARDEN? Would it surprise you to learn that the world just outside your door is overflowing with art, science, humor, drama, intrigue, and colorful personalities? Nature has you surrounded. It's time to come out with your hands gloved and your feet galoshed, ready to sow some spinach, pick a peony, mulch a maple, root a rose, graft a grape, stake a spruce, water a walnut, and hug a hemlock.
Set down your screens and take up your trowel.
Adventure awaits!
The stories inside this book are nearly all true. I have never actually seen a chorus line of worms decked out in feather boas, but I can guarantee that there are plenty of real-life larvae out there merrily chewing up the scenery. You can turn orange from eating too many carrots, and there really is a tiny plant island called a liverwart--although there probably are no tiny castaways living on it. Welcome to gardening for smarties. Never stop thinking, wondering, and digging, and you’ll never be bored. Have fun.
I really enjoy Non-Fiction Books as they are factual books and usually very informative. Picture A Garden by Linda Hornberg is the latest in this genre that I have enjoyed.
I will admit I am not much of a Gardener, but my 3 boys LOVE Gardens and Landscaping. I love watching Gardens Grow and the Beautiful Scenery that Gardens and Plants and flowers create. To that point, this book is AMAZINGLY Beautiful and Informative. I really enjoyed the true stories from the author about Planting and Gardening. The Illustrations really bring the story to life and are very "lifelike", really pop off the pages. I really feel the way the author writes the Middle School Kids, which is the target audience for this book, will be engaged and "WOW" by the wonderful information! I truly believe this book will get Kids Outdoors more, especially in the Summer. I never really thought how much learning can be encompassed from Gardening. I knew that Science and Nature were a part of Gardening, but from the Author I learned that it also encompasses so much more including Family time, relaxing environment and more. The book is Informative, fun, Educational and Encouraging! I HIGHLY recommend this book for Middle School Kids, but it is also a great book for Adults to read. FANTASIC BOOK!
Linda Robin Hornberg grew up in New York, drawing endless paper dolls and adventure comics with her sisters, Brenda and Heidi. She also enjoyed collecting shiny mimosa seeds in little bottles, nibbling parsley from Mom's tomato patch, sword fighting with Iris leaves and flipping cicadas back onto their feet. Her incessant doodling landed her at the Hartford Art School. She received her BFA in Printmaking from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Further formal studies led to classes in children's illustration and certification in landscape horticulture.
Linda is a permanent transplant to Seattle, where she remains an enthusiastic gardener, insatiable reader, unapologetic punster, and incurable cat lady. Please do not offer her your strays.
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Cute cover
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