How Does Your Garden Grow?

Toot & Puddle

by National Geographic Kids (Contributor), Laura Marsh, Holly Hobbie (Creator)

While Toot is away, Puddle decides to plant a vegetable garden. He enlists Opal’s help and together they plant tomatoes, lettuce, and cucumbers—all the right ingredients for a salad. They gather supplies in a big wheelbarrow, they measure out their garden and dig out rows. They rake the soil, add fertilizer, and plant seeds all afternoon. Then impatient Opal learns all the important lessons of growing a garden: she learns that plants need to be watered; that gardens need to be weeded; that sometimes troublesome squirrels need to be given nuts to keep them away from the seeds. And the most important lesson of all—she learns that gardens don’t grow overnight. All good things need to be cared for, protected, and given time to grow.

Genres: Picture Books, Childrens, Food

24 pages, Paperback

First published May 12, 2009

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With more than 600 titles—including the popular Weird But True franchise and the New York Times Best Selling National Geographic Kids Almanac—National Geographic Kids Books is the recognized leader in nonfiction for kids. Published in 28 languages, NGK Books reaches approximately 85 million kids every year.

Offering K-12 educators resources that align to and support the Common Core State Standards, National Geographic has a long history of providing high-quality informational texts suitable for primary, upper elementary, and middle school English language arts, social studies, and science classrooms.

Reviews

[Cheryl]

Wow, when this became a tv series it got bland and lame. Also,why would a pirate scarecrow keep away the pests? And jicama's taste & texture are nothing like sweet potatoes, imo.