Doing the Garden - Hardcover

Garland, Sarah

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0370325702 ISBN 13: 9780370325705

Publisher: Bodley Head Children's Books, 1999

Synopsis

Originally in picture-book format, and published here as a board book, this is one of a series of stories dealing with familiar aspects of a small child's life. It features a mother, her children and their dog planting and digging their way through a muddy day in the garden.

About this title

Review:

Great fun and ideal for reading aloud. (Bath Chronicle)

Warm and realistic illustrations convey the details of a day of gardening. Mum loads two toddlers into the pram and off they set to the garden centre. They buy seeds and plants and even a tree! After staggering home, they have all the fun of digging, sowing, and planting. What a busy day and how delightfully it ends with everyone flopped exhausted on the kitchen floor. (Book Ahead 0-7)

Recommended reading. (Child Care)

A charming book, exploring the gardening exploits of an ordinary family. The pictures are charming, full of detail that offers such rich potential for discussion. (Early Years Educator)

About the Author:

SARAH GARLAND is a much-loved author and illustrator who has published more than 50 books. The daughter of a publisher and illustrator, she trained as a typographer at the London College of Printing. Her books for Frances Lincoln include the favourite preschool Going and Doing series, the bestselling Eddie series and Azzi in Between, which was winner of the first Little Rebels Book Award in 2013 and was also chosen as an IBBY Honour Book and as an Outstanding International Book by USBBY. Sarah and her husband, the artist David Garland, have four children and five grandchildren, and live in Gloucestershire.

About this edition

• Publisher: Bodley Head Children's Books
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0370325702
• ISBN 13: 9780370325705
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 32
• Illustrator: Garland Sarah