First Peas to the Table: How Thomas Jefferson Inspired a School Garden - Hardcover

Grigsby, Susan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0807524522 ISBN 13: 9780807524527

Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company, 2012

Synopsis

Best Children's Books of the Year 2013, Bank Street College
2013 Growing Good Kids - Excellence in Children's Literature Award
2013-2014 Macy's Multicultural Collection of Children's Literature
2012 Children's Agriculture Book of the Year, Nebraska Farm Bureau Federation
2016 Agriculture Book of the Year, American Farm Bureau Foundation

Maya loves contests, so she is excited when her teacher announces they will plant a school garden like Thomas Jefferson's garden at Monticello—and they'll have a "First Peas to the Table" contest, just like Jefferson and his neighbors had each spring. Maya plants her pea seeds with a secret head start—found in Jefferson’s Garden Book—and keeps careful notes in her garden journal. But her friend Shakayla has plans of her own for the contest.

About this title

About the Author

Susan Grigsby lives in St. Louis, MO. She teaches poetry writing in schools, gardens, and nature centers. With her husband and their youngest son, David, she tends a garden large enough to feed her family, share with the neighborhood, and satisfy roaming critters.When Nicole Tadgell was studying art in college, she realized illustrating children's books could be her life path. Nicole has illustrated fourteen books, including Lucky Beans by Becky Birtha and In the Garden with Dr. Carver, also by Susan Grigsby. To get a feel for each book, she pretends she's the child in the story, and does the things the child does. She lives in Spencer, Massachusetts, with her boys; husband, Mark; and border terrier, Boomer. www.nicoletadgell.com

Edition details

• Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0807524522
• ISBN 13: 9780807524527
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Tadgell Nicole
• Number of pages: 32