While I like the colors, the illustrations are lacking something for me. The story is very simple and would make a nice “story time” read. The story also could use a bit “more” for me personally, yet I do think it is the perfect amount for the targeted audience. Perhaps I have read too many spring and relaxing type of books as I did not find anything new with A Peaceful Garden. However, Lucy London and Christa Peirce do combine their talents creatively and […]
Florette
While doing my morning rounds for work, I stumbled upon the spring display on our children’s floor. Browsing the covers, I noticed two new books. There’s a Tiger in the Garden (see my other review) and Florette by Anna Walker. I picked up Florette and I found a book about a girl who moves from the country to the city. She is sad she has to leave her garden behind. However, as an imaginative, creative and determined child, she finds a unique way to have […]
Lazy Gardening Throughout Time
First published in 1961 when the author was in her late 70s, this book expounds on her philosophy that by constant heavy mulching, gardening can be mastered without weeds, without tilling, without “work.” Anyone who has ever walked in a forest or wooded area can tell that nature’s system of dropping organic material and letting it lie creates the most healthy and vibrant soils. Yet this idea of natural mulching and letting stuff rot where it falls was all but foreign in the 50s, when […]