This book is about how to grow a own vegetal garden.

Ages 3-6

Source: Pierce Collage Library

This book tells the story of a squirrel teaching a young groundhog how to grow his very own garden. The groundhog learns everything there is to know about growing his garden. He learns what seeds are and how to plant them. He learns how some plats grow close to the ground while other grow tall on vines. He then gets the help of birds, butterflies and bumble bees to pollinate his garden and help it grow. Eventually the groundhog grows and amazing garden and is able to cook a great big meal for all of his friends. I personally really enjoyed this book because it was consistently colorful yet still contained accurate information. I also felt that this book would be great for young students because the perspective of the groundhog appeared to be that of a young curious child. Overall this would be a great book to read to a classroom of young students. ( )

In my opinion, the book "How Groundhog's Garden Grew" is a great book for young readers. I really liked that this book included modern fantasy and informational aspects so that readers don't just read for enjoyment, but to learn something new as well. This book told the story of a groundhog who is hungry so him and his animal friends decide to plant one when spring comes and they have awoken from hibernation. The animals definitely gave it a cute and interesting aspects for young readers while the book included important informational aspects that were discretely included in the text. Some of the pages had a border with different types of things you would find in the garden and what they look like above and below the ground. There was another page that had a border of the different bugs that could be found in the garden and another with different types of vegetables. Overall the modern fantasy and informational combinations definitely created a successful picture book. Another thing I really liked about this book was the illustrations. The illustrations were so detailed and included a wide variety of things you may find in a garden like animals, plants, bugs, vegetables and seeds. They also seemed to be drawn with pencil and watercolors. The big idea of this story was about how to plant a garden and to learn about different things you can find in the garden. ( )

This was a great book on gardening. Of course, it took the angle of the groundhog pilfering food from other animals' gardens until he learned self-sufficiency with the help of his animal friends, but all the same the gardening in this book was spectacular. I love anything that Lynne Cherry does already, but this is the sort of book that would offer that fantastic opening to a unit on agriculture or plants. Good book with great illustrations. ( )

This is a book about how the groundhog learned to grow a garden with the help of a squirrel. And once all the vegetables and fruit were grown they picked them and had a feast with all of the other animas in town. ( )