Gardening

Shh_ImReading@evpl — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 21:43:00 GMT

This spring and summer, I've been working on making my yard a nice place to spend time. I grew up spending time in the yard at home or at my grandparents' house and I learned a lot from watching my mom and my grandparents take care of their yards. Now I'm checking out a lot of library books about gardening to try and add to what I already know. I hope that every year I will learn a little more.

If you think gardening sounds like fun, check out these books filled with gardening ideas, activities, stories and pictures!

Container Garding for Kids by Ellen Talmage; photographed by Bruce Curtis

Planting the Seed: A Guide to Gardening by Suzanne Winckler

Compost! Growing Gardens From Your Garbage by Linda Glaser; pictures by Anca Hariton

A Harvest of Color: Growing a Vegetable Garden by Melanie Eclare

Down to Earth: Garden Secrets! Garden Stories! Garden Projects You Can Do! Created by Michael J. Rosen with 41 children's book authors and illustrators

The Ugly Vegetables by Grace Lin

Over Under in the Garden: An Alphabet Book by Pat Schories

Tall Tale Weather

UndergroundLibrarian@evpl — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 19:29:00 GMT

What with all the hurricane talk, I got to thinking about a picture book that's been a long time favorite. If you haven't read Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs by Judy Barrett, you're in for a weather and food treat. Grandpa tells the story of the people who lived in the town of Chewandswallow. There, as Grandpa tells it, the weather came 3 times a day, at breakfast, lunch, and dinner. "Everything that everyone ate came from the sky." In addition to meatballs, it rained soup and juice, it snowed mashed potatoes and green peas, and sometimes it stormed hamburgers. People just came outside with their dishes and caught the food. Street cleaners had an interesting job. Trouble came when the food began to get bigger and bigger, and there got to be more of it. How the people coped is part of the tall tale.

When you finish that one, try the sequel. Pickles to PIttsburgh. Actually, Judi Barrett has written many picture books you would enjoy, and her husband Ron Barrett has done a great job of illustrating them.

I like to imagine strawberries falling from the sky -- I 'd be out there with my bowl in no time!

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