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The Mary Frances Garden Book 100th Anniversary Edition: A Children’s Story-Instruction Gardening Book with Bonus Pattern for Child’s Gardening Apron
Join Mary Frances, a young girl in the early 20th century, as she learns how to plan, plant, and care for a flower and vegetable garden with help from her family, friends, and the Garden People. You will meet Feather Flop, Mr. Hop Toad, Good Mrs. Bee, Little Ladybird, Beauty Butterfly, Mr. Cut Worm, the Wicked Rose Bugs, and the Plant Families, and you will take a magical trip to Fairy Flower land with the Flower Fairies---Jack-in-the-Pulpit and Bouncing Bet.
This enchanting book will delight readers of all ages with its endearing story, lovely illustrations and comprehensive instruction that introduces children to the world of gardening in a way that is easy to understand.
Using a powerful "play-lesson" format , The Mary Frances Garden Book 100th Anniversary Edition When Mary Frances decides to have a garden party, instruction is provided in planning ahead to entertain a group, develop a meal plan, and coordinate time-sensitive tasks. Further instruction includes plans for a tiny herb garden complete with tips for the use of herbs in cooking.
Sowed throughout the story are lessons in thrift, courtesy, sharing, work ethic, patience, persistence, and appreciation of the food we eat. In helping to make things grow, Mary Frances and her friends share the pleasures of the land, finding joy, appreciation and understanding of nature's wonders in their garden adventures. A gentle spirit of comradeship between boys and girls permeates the pages of this unique garden book.
Childhood is the ideal time to introduce gardening as children are natural they are inherently curious, they blossom when learning by experience, and they love to play in the dirt. By working in a garden, children can observe the cycle of life, and gain the satisfaction that comes from caring for something over time.
Youth gardens provide a way to encourage children to make smart nutritional choices, form better lifelong eating habits, and develop a love of nature. Gardens build self-esteem in a way that is fun, but also contributes to the family's well-being.
The Mary Frances Garden Book 100th Anniversary Edition has been restored, updated, and expanded for the 21st century to include a new introduction, lovely larger format, enhanced graphics and a bonus pattern to make a child's gardening apron. Black and white illustrations are included on every page, and color illustrations on the covers. The charming story line of this beautifully illustrated book will captivate children, and its comprehensiveness will engage and educate readers of all ages.
This enchanting book will delight readers of all ages with its endearing story, lovely illustrations and comprehensive instruction that introduces children to the world of gardening in a way that is easy to understand.
Using a powerful "play-lesson" format , The Mary Frances Garden Book 100th Anniversary Edition When Mary Frances decides to have a garden party, instruction is provided in planning ahead to entertain a group, develop a meal plan, and coordinate time-sensitive tasks. Further instruction includes plans for a tiny herb garden complete with tips for the use of herbs in cooking.
Sowed throughout the story are lessons in thrift, courtesy, sharing, work ethic, patience, persistence, and appreciation of the food we eat. In helping to make things grow, Mary Frances and her friends share the pleasures of the land, finding joy, appreciation and understanding of nature's wonders in their garden adventures. A gentle spirit of comradeship between boys and girls permeates the pages of this unique garden book.
Childhood is the ideal time to introduce gardening as children are natural they are inherently curious, they blossom when learning by experience, and they love to play in the dirt. By working in a garden, children can observe the cycle of life, and gain the satisfaction that comes from caring for something over time.
Youth gardens provide a way to encourage children to make smart nutritional choices, form better lifelong eating habits, and develop a love of nature. Gardens build self-esteem in a way that is fun, but also contributes to the family's well-being.
The Mary Frances Garden Book 100th Anniversary Edition has been restored, updated, and expanded for the 21st century to include a new introduction, lovely larger format, enhanced graphics and a bonus pattern to make a child's gardening apron. Black and white illustrations are included on every page, and color illustrations on the covers. The charming story line of this beautifully illustrated book will captivate children, and its comprehensiveness will engage and educate readers of all ages.
- GenresScience
254 pages, Paperback
First published November 1, 1998
About the author
Jane Eayre Fryer
44 books10 followersAs a 36 year old school teacher from Merchantville, New Jersey, Jane Eayre Fryer wrote the first Mary Frances book---and left a lasting legacy. Combining fact and fancy for a complete course in home economics, her innovative concept was to teach useful things in an entertaining way. The Mary Frances books were not mere storybooks to be read and cast aside; these were instruction books, in story form, designed to teach valuable life skills to youthful readers in a playful manner. In 7 volumes, Jane Eayre Fryer leads Mary Frances through great adventures---and as Mary Frances learns cooking, sewing, housekeeping, gardening, first aid, knitting and crocheting from her fairy helpers, the reader learns right along with her.
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August 2, 2012
Printed nearly 100 years ago, this thoughtfully assembled collection of garden and plant information is presented in a variety of formats... some fairy tale stories like "Have a Seat on a Toad Stool", some instructions such as " Good and Bad Weeds", a planting calendar and all nicely illustrated in style of the time.. Perfectly wonderful to read to children who are interested in growing plants, fairies, and wholesome, outdoorsy stories!
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