Kids Garden!: The Anytime, Anyplace Guide to Sowing & Growing Fun (Williamson Kids Can! Series) [Paperback]

Avery Hart (Author), Paul Mantell (Author)

Book Description

Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up | Series: Williamson Kids Can! Series

This book is suitable for ages 9 to 12 years. Here is a gardening book for everyone! If you are someone who lives where there is no space to garden outside you can create a Kitchen Scrap Garden, a Fast Food Salad Garden. Alternatively, if you are happy with dirt to dabble in, you can grow an edible tepee of pole beans, nasturtiums, and sweet peas. Along with these projects, this book covers gardening basics, garden philosophies, and how to create your special flower garden.

Editorial Reviews

From School Library Journal

Grade 3-5?This "Anytime Anyplace Guide" tries to do too much, thereby sacrificing depth, clarity, and focus. In a zippy style, and with black-line drawings, the authors give sketchy directions for making a plant person with grass hair; tips for planting according to the position of the moon; the parts of a plant; experiments; recipes; and little bits of much, much more. Gardening is difficult enough with the best of directions, but leading readers to expect fast and easy results without much clarity is a disservice to hopeful beginners. Marc Brown's Your First Garden Book (Little, 1981) is a playful and much more helpful indoor-outdoor guide. Marjorie Waters's The Victory Garden Kids' Book (Globe Pequot, 1994) is a fine, clear outdoor gardening inspiration for slightly older readers.?Carolyn Jenks, First Parish Unitarian Church, Portland, ME
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Review

"We give it two green thumbs up!" -- Schoolwide Enrichment Network

Plant a sidewalk-crack garden, grow a broom, and discover bug remedies and composting with the aid of a title which involves kids ages 4 and older and their families in the gardening process. The attention to urban as well as outdoor gardens makes for a lively and fun focus. -- Midwest Book Review

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 6 and up
  
• Paperback: 160 pages
• Publisher: Williamson Publishing Company (February 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 091358990X
• ISBN-13: 978-0913589908
• Product Dimensions: 11 x 8.5 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,120,461 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Review, March 2, 2000

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gardening mom (Las Vegas, NV) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Kids Garden!: The Anytime, Anyplace Guide to Sowing & Growing Fun (Williamson Kids Can! Series) (Paperback)

This is a great book for the novice gardener--whether you're an "innie" or an "outie" (where you garden--indoors or out). It has great ideas for kids gardening, such as fun containers (like tennis shoes) and a living teepee (poles with runner beans). I found it very helpful and informative for the layperson's interest in beginning gardening, as well.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Ideas, November 19, 2009

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This review is from: Kids Garden!: The Anytime, Anyplace Guide to Sowing & Growing Fun (Williamson Kids Can! Series) (Paperback)

The project ideas in this book are excellent. There are a wide variety of experiments, theme gardens, receipes for the harvest, etc. for both indoor and outdoor gardening.
Some of the suggestions for what to grow are a bit out-of-date, but the descriptions of what to look for are such that one could easily substitute the variety in the book for a more current one.
This book has been great for finding things to do with 4-H'ers, school kids, daycare kids, etc. It is very well done.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Important life lessons served up with fun, May 13, 2009

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John Doe ""Marty"" (New Jersey) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Kids Garden!: The Anytime, Anyplace Guide to Sowing & Growing Fun (Williamson Kids Can! Series) (Paperback)

We have had great fun doing these simple projects - summer, winter, bulbs in winter, and easy to grow pole bean 'teepees' in summer. The authors point out that gardening contains life lessons for children: They learn the value of patience, and that you work first and get rewards after. Terrific for common sense learning.