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    Plant a Little Seed
    Ebook35 pages8 minutes

    Plant a Little Seed

    By Bonnie Christensen

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    About this ebook

    With a little help from a watering can, bright sunlight, and a lot of patience, two friends plant seeds in their community garden and watch how they grow. Slowly, the seeds turn into sprouts, which grow into stems, followed by leaves and buds! The garden will soon be teeming with life and ready for a harvest season celebration. But until then, the children water and wait and dream . . .

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Publishers
    Release dateMay 8, 2012
    ISBN9781466816688
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    Plant a Little Seed
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    Bonnie Christensen

    Bonnie Christensen (1951–2015) was an author and illustrator best known for her biographies and other nonfiction works for children and young adults.

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    • 3/5
      About growing a garden seems like it would be a good spring read at first glance but the more I think about it the more I think it would be good for any time between spring and fall (it doesn't really cover winter). The illustrations remind me of stained glass windows b/c of the thick black lines. There is a brief informational section about seeds on the last page.
    • 3/5
      Two young friends discover the joys of gardening in this lovely picture-book from Bonnie Christensen, carefully tending their plants throughout the growing season, and then reaping the rewards when harvest time comes. "We plant a little seed or two / or three or four or more, / then pat the soil, warm in the sun, / and water and wait / and wait and dream... / and dream and wait some more," it begins, following the girl and boy through the hot summer and cool autumn in their community garden, culminating in a feast for their friends and family.I really appreciated this tale of two young people involved in their local community garden, both because I think community gardens are a wonderful idea, and because I found the poetic narrative quite enjoyable. The artwork, which looks as if it were some kind of block-print - I'm not entirely sure of the medium used - is colorful and appealing, with a simple, "folksy" style that is well suited to the subject. I particularly liked the fact that the humans depicted were diverse - the young girl is white, the young boy black - and also really liked many of the animals shown, from the pet dog to the family of rabbits that hang about the garden. All in all, this was a charming picture-book look at gardening, one I would recommend to young gardeners themselves, as well as to those looking for children's stories showing community projects.
    • 5/5
      A beautifully illustrated celebration of community gardening. Wendell Berry would approve.
    • 5/5
      What a little gem Plant a Little Seed is. With a deceptively simple, poetic text and gorgeous, evocative illustrations, author/illustrator Bonnie Christensen delightfully and realistically shows the joys, the pleasures of gardening (planting seeds, waiting for the seeds to sprout, and finally, harvesting and enjoying nature's bounty). While the poetic narrative is uncomplicated enough to be enjoyed by toddlers, I believe that slightly older children (especially children interested in gardens and gardening) would also find pleasure reading Pant a Little Seed (or having it read to them). The detailed supplemental information is an added bonus (I particularly like the fact that Bonnie Christensen mentions the importance of insects for pollination, that worms keep the soil soft and aerated, that many insects are beneficial and actually eat common garden pests).The accompanying illustrations have an almost jewel or stained glass like quality to them, and not only do they wonderfully and expressively compliment and mirror the text, they also provide information not found within the narrative proper (I love the fact that the two friends planting seeds and gardening are a girl and a boy, and that they are depicted as being ethnically diverse). And that these two facts are only demonstrated by and through the illustrations (that the text itself makes no mention of either the gender or the ethnicity of the two friends, that it is simply a story of two friends planting seeds, two friends tending their garden) is both lovely and encouraging; it shows ethnic diversity and ethnic diverse friendships as something natural, as natural, as beautiful as plants, as gardens, as sunshine and rain, as nature itself.