"Calling all budding gardeners! What would you like to grow today? Is it green beans, or peas? Corn or carrots? There's so much to learn in Lois Ehlert's colorful picture book about growing vegetables. First we collect the necessary tools, and don't forget the seeds. Then the magic happens: planting, weeding, harvesting, washing, chopping, cooking, and best of all--eating! There's even a recipe for vegetable soup! Ehlert's simple cut-paper-style illustrations...

Naughty Peter Rabbit disobeys his mother by going into Mr. McGregor's garden and almost gets caught.

When Mrs. McGee passes through a beautiful garden asking whose it is, the gardener is the first to claim it, followed by all of the garden's inhabitants plus the sun and the rain, who also claim it as their own.

In the city an abandoned lot squeezed between two buildings becomes a community garden.

In this garden the reader learns to count from one watering can to ten snails, from twenty weepy onions to fifty cherry pies and even to 233 peas.

"When Vincent is sent to his aunt Mimi's city apartment for the summer, he's surrounded by more concrete than nature. Things are looking gray. But before long, Vincent meets Toma, and the boys bond while throwing some strange dirt balls into an empty lot. All summer long, they toss and launch, throw and catch. Little do they know, though, just as their friendship is growing, something is also blooming in the empty lot. A celebration of the joy of...

A child explores the ordinary life of his extraordinary great-grandfather, as expressed in his topiary garden.

"Miguel has many plants in his community garden, and today he must find his sunflowers. Let's help Miguel look for them!"--Back cover.

When a pest eats all the vegetables in the garden, Duck comes up with a plan to stop whatever is feasting on his crops.

Armed with seeds and a shovel, Biscuit and the little girl visit the community garden where they plant flowers with new friends.