by Eve Bunting
Flower Garden pairs spare rhyming lines with warm, full-color illustrations to follow an African American girl and her father as they buy plants, ride the bus, and build a window-box present for the child’s mother. What works best is the tender, urban-meets-nature mood and imagery that invites picture-walking and read-aloud interaction. The main limitation is the book’s poetic brevity: it offers little factual gardening information and the rhymes may seem repetitive to older listeners or adults seeking practical content.
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?An urban AfricanAmerican girl and her father buy plants, potting soil, and a window box at the supermarket, ride the bus to their apartment, and put together a colorful gift for the child?s mother. Rhyming verse carries the brief story, while wonderful, warm, fullcolor illustrations present scenes from novel angles, and depict a loving family wi...
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