  | In our garden Author: Miller, Pat Zietlow | |
| Price: $22.58 | ||
Summary:
Students create a vegetable garden on their school's rooftop.
| Illustrator: | Crowton, Melissa |
Reviews:
Kirkus Reviews (05/15/22)
Booklist (02/15/22)
The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books (00/02/22)
Full Text Reviews:
Booklist - 02/15/2022 Millie, a homesick girl, looks out her window one rainy day and thinks of a way to make herself feel more at home in her new surroundings. In her old apartment building “more than an ocean away,” her family grew their own vegetables on the rooftop garden. She suggests to her teacher that her class could create a garden on the school’s roof. Her teacher, her classmates, and the principal all support her idea, pitching in to plan the garden, build raised beds, plant seeds, tend the vegetables and flowers, and eventually take them home or give them away. As Principal Blinson says, “Gardens bring people together.” Despite cloudy days, Millie finds that “everything’s different. Everything’s better.” Written in first person from her point of view, the narrative reads aloud smoothly, with a pleasant cadence and occasional internal rhymes. The lively mixed-media artwork supports the text effectively with varied scenes of students involved with each other and the project of creating their garden, while Millie glows with happiness as her idea becomes a satisfying reality. - Copyright 2022 Booklist.
Booklist - 02/15/2022 Millie, a homesick girl, looks out her window one rainy day and thinks of a way to make herself feel more at home in her new surroundings. In her old apartment building “more than an ocean away,” her family grew their own vegetables on the rooftop garden. She suggests to her teacher that her class could create a garden on the school’s roof. Her teacher, her classmates, and the principal all support her idea, pitching in to plan the garden, build raised beds, plant seeds, tend the vegetables and flowers, and eventually take them home or give them away. As Principal Blinson says, “Gardens bring people together.” Despite cloudy days, Millie finds that “everything’s different. Everything’s better.” Written in first person from her point of view, the narrative reads aloud smoothly, with a pleasant cadence and occasional internal rhymes. The lively mixed-media artwork supports the text effectively with varied scenes of students involved with each other and the project of creating their garden, while Millie glows with happiness as her idea becomes a satisfying reality. - Copyright 2022 Booklist.
