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Planting the Wild Garden. . .
PEACHTREE, 2011
In this lyrical and lushly illustrated picture book, Kathryn O. Galbraith and Wendy Halperin, combine poetry and botany and share with young readers the many ways wind and water, birds and animals, plants and people -- all of us together -- plant the wild meadow garden.
Read what reviewers say about
Planting the Wild Garden!
"It is a thoroughly handsome book, suffused with calm."
~ Starred review, Publishers Weekly

"There's plenty to pore over and savor; this title would germinate nicely in primary classrooms and sow curiosity in one-on-one sharing." ~ Kirkus
A Junior Library Guild selection
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2011 Parents' Choice Gold Award
A FARMER AND HER BOY carefully plant seeds in their garden.
In the wild garden many seeds are planted too—but not by farmers’ hands.
The wind spins and spills seeds out across the meadow.
Raindrops and wash seeds away to new homes.
Birds and animals carry seeds with them as they travel from place to place.
Under the hot summer sun, Scotch broom pods open in the summer heat,
flinging seeds here, there, and everywhere.