In Our Garden
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- $8.99
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- $8.99
Publisher Description
From the New York Times bestselling author of Be Kind comes an uplifting classroom tale about students who create a vegetable garden on their school's rooftop.
Millie has recently moved to a new city, from a place more than an ocean away. More than anything she misses the garden where her family used to grow food. Then one day she has an idea—the school has a fine flat roof, perfect for a garden. Soon her teacher and classmates are on board, but it takes more than ideas to build a garden. It takes supplies and hard work; it takes a lot of learning; and it takes a whole school—a whole community—coming together to help. And of course, it also takes a lot of waiting. But as Millie's teacher Miss Mirales says, “Be patient. Good things take time.”
From building the beds and planting the seeds to the first glorious harvest, here's the story of a garden—and a girl—in bloom, and what it takes for a new place to finally feel like home.
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It's raining in a city, and "most days, I feel gray too," but a trip to the corner store gives Millie an idea: a garden. Millie tells classmates and teachers about the rooftop garden atop a former apartment building, "more than an ocean away." Spreads by Crowton pull back, portraying the energy of big groups, indoors and out, as doll-like figures of varying abilities and skin tones plan, bring supplies, and set up the beds. Miller writes even lines of prose poetry that sometimes burst into buoyancy ("Our high-in-the-sky, thought-we'd-try-garden"), showing how working a plot of land follows the child's own experience: "Maybe I'm like our seeds./ Stuck in new soil. Hoping to grow." Values of speaking up, persistence, and patience are all embraced in a quiet tale of settling into a new community. Ages 3–7.
