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166 voters
Planting the Wild Garden
by
Kathryn O. Galbraith,
Wendy Anderson Halperin (Goodreads Author)
An exploration of the different ways seeds are dispersed into the environment.
Hardcover, 32 pages
Published
April 1st 2011
by Peachtree Publishers
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I love picture books for children. They are wonderful teaching tools and the opportunity they afford the child and parent to interact is tremendously rewarding to both the child and the adult. When you hold this lovely, large picture book you are immediately captivated by the illustrations reminiscent of an earlier gentler time when the illustrations of children's books were lovely, soft, gentle, and fine tuned. The beautiful watercolor and pen illustrations by Wendy Anderson Halperin are all th...more
Apr 29, 2011
Gmr
rated it
4 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
all ages
Recommended to Gmr by:
Peachtree Publishers
A simple story at its heart, but filled with the beauty of Nature, this is one book that teaches as well as entertains. What does it teach? Oh where to begin. At face value, the life cycle of a seed is what greets us first. We explore the various means by which a seed can be transported and distributed in order to continue the natural order of things. From a gentle push from the wind to the washing effects of the rain, even the tag-a-long effect created from woodland creatures, all of these opti...more
Feb 27, 2012
Mary Ann
rated it
4 of 5 stars
Shelves:
1st,
2nd,
animals,
environment,
gardens,
kindergarten,
picture-books,
nonfiction,
parents-press-2012
Enter the world of a meadow garden, and look carefully around you. You’ll find seeds that planted in so many different ways:scattered, spilled, spun, and swept by the wind;eatenby a flock of goldfinches;washed by the rain to new places;carried elsewhere on foxes’ tails or peoples’ socks and sweaters. Galbraith and Halperin work together seamlessly, showing through poetic words and soft illustrations just how wild plants spread their seeds. Young children will be fascinated by Halperin’s many sma...more
When children think of a garden, most will think of a patch of soil in the backyard filled with carrots, cabbage, and corn, but in this innovative picture book, Kathryn O. Galbraith and illustrator Wendy Anderson Halperin bring to life the wild garden of the earth. From the traditional planting of seeds, to the rush of the wind, the trampling of animals, and the movement of water, Planting the Wild Garden shows how all of us in partnership with nature and animals help plant the wild garden.
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Planting the Wild Garden is both beautiful and informative. It tells and shows the story of how seeds are planted by wind, by birds, by water, and more. The illustrations are lovely, while also conveying specific information about how seeds travel and grow. This is also a book that gently shows humans in their place as co-inhabitants, co-nurturers of the Earth. At the end, readers will find a bibliography for further reading!
This is an exploration on how seeds are transported through various means. Kathryn tell a brilliant story about how nature takes part in sowing seeds through animals, people and how wind scatters seeds by spilling them and sweeping them up into the sunlight and across the fields. A perfect picture book illustrated by Wendy Anderson Halperin. I highly recommend this book.
This is a beautifully illustrated book that shows how seeds are moved from place to place. The animals' fur pages can be used to relate to how children's hair and clothing can also transport seeds. This can be used for a unit on plants or animals, as many different types of animals and habitats are present within the pages.
This will be perfect when spring comes, and 9 million preschool teachers need non-fiction about seeds growing for 4-year-olds. I wouldn't read this to anyone much younger than four, but it's a nice change from the usual sort of spring-for-preschooler non-fiction: "it is Spring. See the pretty flowers?".
Just as humans plant a vegetable garden, nature plants her own field of trees, flowers, and grasses. Readers learn how seeds are spread and scattered, by animals, wind, water—even unsuspecting picnickers.
This is a lovely, quiet book that promotes respect and wonder for the world around us.
This is a lovely, quiet book that promotes respect and wonder for the world around us.
This is a beautiful book that tells the story of how seeds are spread in the wild.
I would recommend it for families who enjoy nature and/or gardening and families who are studying the seed cycle.
I would recommend it for families who enjoy nature and/or gardening and families who are studying the seed cycle.
Beautiful pencil and watercolor illustrations are a highlight of this book that describes how seeds make their way into the ground to grow in the wild. Educational and interesting!
Three stars for the content - how seeds travel, but five stars for the beautiful illustrations by Wendy Halperin. Going to show my son the drawing she did of a squirrel - perfection!
I liked this read aloud. I think this could be tied in well with science and learning about plants and how they create a chain reaction. Food chains could also be discussed as a side note to the lesson.
Recommend Gr K-3
Recommend Gr K-3
Beautiful illustrations! This book was a little advanced for a 22 month old (better for a three-year-old), but does a great job of explaining how seeds are spread in the wild.
Jul 27, 2012
Newbury Town Library Youth Services
rated it
4 of 5 stars
Shelves:
picture-books,
read-alouds
The mystery of how seeds travel and plants grow beyond a farm setting is explored here in beautiful, soft watercolors. A nice compliment to the gardening storytime I held.
Beautiful (of course) book that still held the attention of bouncy pre-schoolers. She successfully and delightfully transitions from the garden to the natural world.
What a pretty book! Really nice illustrations help explain how seeds travel and settle to turn into plants or become food for wildlife. Very nice!
Halperin's illustrations are perfect for this book--the details and her soft palette invite the reader to keep coming back and studying.
A beautifully illustrated book about gardening and the ways that animals interact with seeds and vegetables. Good examples of how to add interest to writing with onomatopoeia.
Picture book that shows all the various ways the seeds travel through beautiful illustrations, with a simple easy to follow story.
The illustrations are beautiful and document the way seeds travel, but the text is a bit long to hold attention for a story time.
Excellent, gorgeously illustrated non-fiction for elementary students about how seeds are dispersed and planted by nature.
Although this book is non-fiction it could work as a storytime book. That being said, there are many little detailes that would be lost in a larger setting. I think that it would be an excellent choice for one on one reading simply because the illustrations tell a beautiful story as well.
I can't rate or review this book yet as I am a judge for the final round of Cybils in NFPB category.
This is another children's books with lovely artwork and the kids I babysat enjoyed the story.
An illustrator who deserves more attention than she gets, in a beautiful and useful picture book.
COMMON CORE, NON-FICTION, NONFICTION, JUVENILE, GARDENS, WILD GARDENS, MEADOWS, SCIENCE,
This is a beautiful book that shows all the ways nature plants the beauty around us.
I love the illustrations, and the bibliography. Prose very nice too.
This beautiful book describes the ways that Nature scatters and plants seeds.
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Kathryn O. Galbraith is an award-winning children's book author with more than a dozen picture books to her credit, including Boo, Bunny!; Arbor Day Square; Traveling Babies; and Laura Charlotte. She teaches writing for children at the University of Washington.
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