The Enchanted Gardening Book - Hardcover

Herck, Alice

4.14

7 ratings by Goodreads

9780679880967: The Enchanted Gardening Book

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0679880968 ISBN 13: 9780679880967

Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers, 1997

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Young readers learn the simple basics of gardening in a colorful beginner's guide, complete with gardening activities, recipes, and crafts as well as instruction on how to grow herbs and miniature flowers.

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From School Library Journal:

Grade 3-5. Herck employs a magical, fanciful air throughout this slim volume and urges readers to "change the future of the natural world" by creating a doll garden, miniature rain forest (terrarium), secret garden, Japanese rock garden, or butterfly garden. Instructions are also given for using the flowers (home grown or store bought) to make gifts. This is not gardening on the cheap or for the beginner?children are advised to play it safe and buy seedlings rather than seeds and some plans are rather ambitious?miniature rose bushes for novice indoor gardeners? Graves's colorful illustrations are wonderful; a profusion of flowers and plants frames each page and one is almost tempted to try to sniff the endpapers for fragrant aromas. However, they are mostly decorative, as the different types of flora are rarely identified. Less whimsy, but a lot more practical information can be found for the youngest in Angela Wilkes's My First Garden Book (Knopf, 1992). For the more experienced, Diane Rhoades's Garden Crafts for Kids (Sterling, 1995) is a joyful compilation of hands-on gardening know-how, recipes, crafts, experiments, etc.?Marilyn Payne Phillips, University City Public Library, MO
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Booklist:

Gr. 3^-6. Here's a book with both pluses and minuses. True to the subtitle, Herck offers lots of gardening ideas, from such basics as transplanting and drying flowers to extremely challenging concepts such as building a Japanese rock garden. It would take at least a middle-grader to read the instructions and follow through, yet the format is that of a pretty picture book, with the children in the illustrations often seeming too young for the projects they are carrying out. And although some of the ideas will appeal more to adults (a mint garden, for instance), others, like a doll's garden, seem babyish. Only for larger collections or where gardening books are in demand, though there are some lovely elements that do appeal. Ilene Cooper

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