gardens

Summer is here! Leaf through this magical book and meet animals playing in a summer garden?.

"Jess longs to be like normal children, to have friend whom she can play outdoors with. But her days are split between tutors and doctors' appointments.One night, she sn eaks out. And there, just beyond the empty playground she's longed to visit, she discovers a beautiful impossibility--a magical garden made completely of ice. A place that shields the sun and allows her to be free. But the sun isn't the only thing to fear"--Jacket flap.

Pooh discovers that the secret to a hive full of honey is a fine garden of busy bees so he decides to plant one of his own.

"The . . . first section focuses on history and is devoted to types of gardens ranging from the biblical Garden of Eden to English parklands; the second perceptively considers their role in literary works"--Amazon.

"When the WellieWishers see how much Camille misses her summers by the sea, they want to help... but how can four girls turn a garden into an ocean?"--Back cover.

Ten-year-old Mary comes to live in a lonely house on the Yorkshire moors and discovers an invalid cousin and the mysteries of a locked garden.

Soon after her beloved grandmother's death, Trisha's family moves to a diverse California neighborhood where she meets Stewart and his grandmother, Miss Eula, who brings people together to help a grieving neighbor.

"Taken to live with her grandmother in the country, a young city girl finds a way to cope with the change brought about by her parents' separation when an owl, a frog, and a mouse take her on a nighttime tour of her extraordinary new world"--OCLC.

Chippy experiences the loss of his best friend Pickle, a meadow vole, and his friends in the garden help him to express his grief and learn to accept and be at peace with the fate of his good pal.

"Farmer Evan and his dog do everything together and, especially, in the garden but when his dog passes away Evan lets his garden fill with weeds until a pumpkin vine brings new hope"--Provided by publisher.