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Picture A Garden by Linda Hornberg
Category: Middle-Grade Non-Fiction (Ages 8-12), 160 pages
Genre: Children’s Non-Fiction.
Publisher: Peanut Butter Publishing
Publication Date: January 28, 2025.
Content Rating: G: Topics only include gardening and being outdoors.
Book Description:
What springs to mind when you hear the word GARDEN? Would it surprise you to learn that the world just outside your door is overflowing with art, science, humor, drama, intrigue, and colorful personalities? Nature has you surrounded. It’s time to come out with your hands gloved and your feet galoshed, ready to sow some spinach, pick a peony, mulch a maple, root a rose, graft a grape, stake a spruce, water a walnut, and hug a hemlock.
Set down your screens and take up your trowel.
Adventure awaits!
The stories inside this book are nearly all true. I have never actually seen a chorus line of worms decked out in feather boas, but I can guarantee that there are plenty of real-life larvae out there merrily chewing up the scenery. You can turn orange from eating too many carrots, and there really is a tiny plant island called a liverwart–although there probably are no tiny castaways living on it. Welcome to gardening for smarties. Never stop thinking, wondering, and digging, and you’ll never be bored. Have fun.
MY REVIEW
I don’t read near as many non-fiction books as I do fiction. When I do, it’s usually memoirs or such. That said, I was wowed by Picture A Garden.
I have a green thumb. I love feeling the soil between my fingers. The smell and feel of the plants and trees I tenderly care for. I’m always doing my due diligence. Learning what makes my flora grow. What they need to thrive or how to help them when they aren’t. This book not only taught me a lot, it also charmed me.
Linda used her own handwriting, filling the pages with fun details. And every page was filled colorful drawings. I loved that. She also made me laugh with the little stories she shared.
I read some of this with my son. His middle grade years are well behind him. And this is targeted for that age group. He mentioned how much he enjoyed reading it with me but probably wouldn’t have enjoyed it as much when he was younger. There is a lot of detail and we agreed. It would have been better read as a family or by someone a bit older. That’s the only hitch with this wonderful book.
Picture A Garden has a permanent place on my book shelf. I want it in easy reach. Spring is coming and the time to get my hands dirty is almost here.
5 STARS
Meet Author Linda Robin Hornberg:
Linda Robin Hornberg grew up in New York, drawing endless paper dolls and adventure comics with her sisters, Brenda and Heidi. She also enjoyed collecting shiny mimosa seeds in little bottles, nibbling parsley from Mom’s tomato patch, sword fighting with Iris leaves and flipping cicadas back onto their feet. Her incessant doodling landed her at the Hartford Art School. She received her BFA in Printmaking from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Further formal studies led to classes in children’s illustration and certification in landscape horticulture.
Linda is a permanent transplant to Seattle, where she remains an enthusiastic gardener, insatiable reader, unapologetic punster, and incurable cat lady. Please do not offer her your strays.
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