Seed Dreams

 

Snow you say? A foot or so? Why let it get you down? There's always room to dream about a warm and fertile garden, seeds and shoots, and flowers and fruit. Here are a few books to stir those dreams up. All available at the school library. 

 

A Seed is Sleepy by Dianna Hutts Aston: beautiful drawings to linger over, as well as information about the life cycle of plants.

 

The Gardening Book by Jane Bull: tons of information on what can grow in your vegetable garden and how to do it

 

It's our garden – from seeds to harvest in a school garden: a picture book featuring students, teachers, volunteers and community members as they harvest a garden on the grounds of a an elementary school.
 

  Packet of Seeds by Deborah Hopkinson: When a pioneer family moves west the mother misses home so much that she will not even name the new baby until her daughter thinks of just the right thing to cheer her up.

 

And then it's Spring by Julie Fogliano: Simple text reveals the anticipation of a boy who, having planted seeds while everything around is brown, fears that something has gone wrong until, at last, the world turns green.