Book
Flower garden / written by Eve Bunting ; illustrated by Kathryn Hewitt.
Helped by her father, a young girl prepares a flower garden as a birthday surprise for her mother.
Record details
- ISBN: 0152023720
- Physical Description: unpaged : col. ill.
- Publisher: New York : Voyager Books, c1994.
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| Subject: | Gardening > Fiction. Parent and child > Fiction. Birthdays > Fiction. Rhyming stories. |
- Baker & Taylor
Helped by her father, a young girl prepares a flower garden as a birthday surprise for her mother - Baker & Taylor
In a simple rhyming text and bold illustrations, a little girl and her father purchase a birthday garden for her motherpansies, tulips, daffodils, geraniums, and daisiesand hurry home to prepare their birthday surprise. Reprint. - HARPERCOLL
In this warm and sunny picture book, follow the progress of a little girl and her father as they put together a wonderful birthday surprise for mom: a window box flower garden.
After the pansies, tulips, daffodils, geraniums, and daisies are purchased and dad and daughter take them home on the bus, they're lovingly planted in the window box. Candles on the cake are lightedâjust as Mom walks in the door to find her daughter, her husband, and her birthday surprise.
âWonderful, warm, full-color illustrations present scenes from novel angles, and depict a loving family with a sense of intimacy, sincerity, and joy.ââSchool Library Journal
- Houghton“An urban African-American girl and her father buy plants, potting soil, and a window box at the supermarket, ride the bus to their apartment, and put together a colorful gift for the child’s mother. Rhyming verse carries the brief story, while wonderful, warm, full-color illustrations present scenes from novel angles, and depict a loving family with a sense of intimacy, sincerity, and joy.”—School Library Journal
