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The Global Garden
In this fantastic interactive guide—with pop-ups, pull-tabs, wheels, and flaps—children learn all about the origins of food and clothing and discover all the plants that people can't do without. For those who've wondered where sugar grows, what a chocolate tree looks like, or where jeans or bicycle tires come from, the answers are all here and are shared by friendly bees who guide the reader along their way. Inspired by England's Eden Project Botanic Garden, this ingenious, prize-winning volume is ideal for Earth Day celebrations in April.
12 pages, Hardcover
First published March 1, 2005
About the author
Kate Petty
270 books4 followersWriter/Editor Kate Petty (born Katharine Chapman) was the innovative author of more than two hundred books for children, including fiction, nonfiction, and picture books. Her award-winning pop-up books with illustrator Jennie Maizels and her collaborations with the Eden Project in Cornwall, England, are among her most popular works.
She died at age 55 from cancer.
She died at age 55 from cancer.
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June 14, 2020
I would definitely suggest reading this book!! Such a fantastic and interactive book that discusses the origin of plants, food and clothing in a creative and enjoyable way for children. I think this would be a great non fiction book that would be enjoyable for Key Stage 1 children as it is fun and engaging however, overall, I think Key Stage 2 could gain more use out of it due to the depth in the content in areas. A great way to show cross-curriuclar links with english, geography, history and science.
September 1, 2020
My Mum got me this book at the Eden Project when we went on Holiday to Cornwall in 2006. This book is amazing. It teaches children the process of food from a seed to a crop. It has interactive pulls and cycles. Worth the money a special book that will keep children interested and learning at the same time.
July 14, 2020
The Global Garden is a fantastic book which shows may aspects of the garden, including growing seeds and their stages of development, information about different flowers and where different food items are grown and originate from. This would be a great book to have in KS2 classrooms for children to explore individually or in small groups. There are lots to pop up and flaps and pulls which makes the book very engaging and interesting to read. This could be useful to use alongside topics on where food comes from, science or alongside growing their own seeds.
December 28, 2018
The Global Garden is a great read as it allows the reader to understand the different parts throughout our world, how they work and what they need to do so. In one part of the book it explains what plants are and the importance of them receiving earth, air, eater and sunshine in order to grow helping the reader to gain more of an understanding on plants and their requirements to survive. Throughout the book the interactive pop ups help the reader to stay engaged throughout.
August 11, 2018
This book was fascinating as it taught me about different global gardens and interesting facts about wildlife, nature and plants; life cycle of a bumble bee and sunflower.
The book was inspired by the Eden Project in Cornwall. It is written to help children understand how plants grow; thinking about the soil they need to grown in, sunlight and water.
The book also teaches children that the plants we grow can be made into food to eat and furniture, paper, sports equipment, soap, heart medicine.
It teaches children about pollination; how the bees carry pollen from the flower to another to make seeds. The book teaches children about the life cycle of a plant, showing the children that the plant starts off as a seed, then it starts to grow a small stem with leaves, the flower bud starts to grow , then the flower opens, then pollination takes place.
The book clearly teaches children the main factors that help a plant to grow; earth, air, water and sunshine. A diagram of a lead in the book helps the children to understand how plants make energy foods (sugars) for themselves. Children learn what air goes in and comes out; carbon dioxide comes in and oxygen goes out.
The children may also learn about photosynthesis, where carbon dioxide and water go in where is exchanged for sugars and oxygen.
The book may help children to learn how fruit and vegetables grow, by lifting up the flaps to see that most of the fruit grow on trees, whereas the vegetables grow in the ground. The book also shows children a food chain and it teaches the children that the lower down the food change the animals eat plants.
The book also shows children how they foods like bread, cornflakes, margarine, sugar, plum jam. The book also teaches children how materials are made; cotton jeans, willow basket, wooden train track. The book has a tab that the children pull which helps them to see the everyday things they use and what plant or tree their come from.
The book also teaches children how paper, jeans and rubber are made. There are booklets that the children pull out and read which describes the processes to make these materials.
The book also teaches the children which part of the world the foods and materials are grown. It also teaches the children about stories of how these different foods and materials were discovered.
The last page of the book teaches children about the uses of different flowers; healing flowers, beautiful flowers, exotic flowers, inspiring flowers and symbolic flowers.
The message of this book helps children to understand the world around them; to learn that the foods they eat were once a plant. The materials they use such as clothes and baskets were also come from plants or trees. It also teaches children important science information about how plants form and what they need to grow. I enjoyed this book and learnt a lot from the illustrations in the book. For example, I learnt the life cycle of a flower by spinning the wheel to see the different processes of how a plant grows gradually overtime. I also learnt about different flowers from looking at the different pop up flowers in the book; Lily, Rose, daisy, poppy.
The book was inspired by the Eden Project in Cornwall. It is written to help children understand how plants grow; thinking about the soil they need to grown in, sunlight and water.
The book also teaches children that the plants we grow can be made into food to eat and furniture, paper, sports equipment, soap, heart medicine.
It teaches children about pollination; how the bees carry pollen from the flower to another to make seeds. The book teaches children about the life cycle of a plant, showing the children that the plant starts off as a seed, then it starts to grow a small stem with leaves, the flower bud starts to grow , then the flower opens, then pollination takes place.
The book clearly teaches children the main factors that help a plant to grow; earth, air, water and sunshine. A diagram of a lead in the book helps the children to understand how plants make energy foods (sugars) for themselves. Children learn what air goes in and comes out; carbon dioxide comes in and oxygen goes out.
The children may also learn about photosynthesis, where carbon dioxide and water go in where is exchanged for sugars and oxygen.
The book may help children to learn how fruit and vegetables grow, by lifting up the flaps to see that most of the fruit grow on trees, whereas the vegetables grow in the ground. The book also shows children a food chain and it teaches the children that the lower down the food change the animals eat plants.
The book also shows children how they foods like bread, cornflakes, margarine, sugar, plum jam. The book also teaches children how materials are made; cotton jeans, willow basket, wooden train track. The book has a tab that the children pull which helps them to see the everyday things they use and what plant or tree their come from.
The book also teaches children how paper, jeans and rubber are made. There are booklets that the children pull out and read which describes the processes to make these materials.
The book also teaches the children which part of the world the foods and materials are grown. It also teaches the children about stories of how these different foods and materials were discovered.
The last page of the book teaches children about the uses of different flowers; healing flowers, beautiful flowers, exotic flowers, inspiring flowers and symbolic flowers.
The message of this book helps children to understand the world around them; to learn that the foods they eat were once a plant. The materials they use such as clothes and baskets were also come from plants or trees. It also teaches children important science information about how plants form and what they need to grow. I enjoyed this book and learnt a lot from the illustrations in the book. For example, I learnt the life cycle of a flower by spinning the wheel to see the different processes of how a plant grows gradually overtime. I also learnt about different flowers from looking at the different pop up flowers in the book; Lily, Rose, daisy, poppy.
June 12, 2020
I love this book! It's got interactive features and plenty of pictures all whilst educating the reader as to the plants and produce things come from. This would be a brilliant book to use in schools. The interactive element means children can read it individually. However, I feel as though this would be a great book to use within science or geography particularly as a topic starter. It can also be used with cross - curricular links, for example, children could be encouraged to plant one of the plants mentioned (within reason) and watch the progress - this could be completed within schools if allotments were available.
August 16, 2017
An interactive, highly informative and interesting book! Lovely detailed illustrations with lots of different pull-out and pop-up bits which make it exciting for children. This book offers information about what we eat, wear, use and where it all comes from, as well as explaining important cycles in the natural world, such as the life cycle of a plant.
May 14, 2018
This picture book is fantastic for supporting children's knowledge of the outside world! The text is perfect for cross-curricular subject learning i.e. Literacy (non-fiction) and Science. With all the pull-tabs and pop-up sections this is a very fun and interactive book for children. I would definitely use this with Early years and lower KS1.
September 17, 2018
Very informative while also being creative
June 1, 2020
I read this book for the first time with a class during SBT2. It was really fascinating and kept the children engaged and learning throughout. We later used it to support our science unit.
October 18, 2012
An amazing pop up book on plants. It demonstrates the life cycle of a plant and what the different plants produce. This book also looks at food chains and the relationship between animals and plants. It presents various fruits and how they are all grown as well as where they have come from. It illustrates from which plants, everyday food and objects have come from. It includes mini stories on how books and jeans are made. This book can be used throughout early years as well as KS1 and KS2 and the use of this book can be differentiated to meet a specific age range. It could be used for various subjects therefore I believe it is a great cross-curricular resource. It can be used for Geography, English, Science and many other subjects.It is a great book to keep children engaged and interested in a science topic about the life cycle of a plant.
October 11, 2019
I really enjoyed this book as I thought it was interactive, highly informative and interesting, children love it. The illustrations are great and so detailed with lots of different bits to pop up and pull out that make learning more exciting and fun.
July 19, 2010
My 4 year old daughter and I love this book. Lots of interesting information presented in a really attractive fashion, particularly for her age group.
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