[Community_garden] need advice on children's gardening books

[Kirby, Ellen]

Thanks, Mary, for information about your books.  I will look forward to
checking them out.

The Brooklyn Botanic Garden is publishing a new handbook "Gardening with
Children".  Hopefully this be helpful to many people as our handbooks
are well known. 

It will be available as part of membership in the Brooklyn Botanic
Garden in May 2007 and to the general public in June 2007.
The book is based on the almost 100 year experience of the Brooklyn
Botanic Garden's children's garden. It will be filled with activities.

For more about the book, keep posted to our website www.bbg.org


Ellen Kirby, Director
Brooklyn GreenBridge
Brooklyn Botanic Garden

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Subject: [Community_garden] need advice on children's gardening books


I have been an avid reader and appreciator of this listserv and for
years 
had a plot in a community garden in Washington, DC.  I'm also  the
author of 
children's books, including the Jackson Jones chapter-book series,
published by 
Random House, about a boy and his adventures with his  city community
garden.  
The third book, Jackson Jones and the  Curse of the Outlaw Rose, comes
out 
soon and I'd like to include a "tip  sheet" with associated
mailings/events.  
What books, from your  experience, have you found most helpful/enjoyable
when 
working with kids and  gardens?  (These could be how-to or
fiction/poetry 
related to kids and  gardens.)  And do you have any garden-related
crafts activities 
that  can be done in classroom that have worked especially well?  I'm
going  
to include a few from my own experience but would love to learn of
others.
 
Many thanks for any and all suggestions!
 
Mary Quattlebaum
Children's Author, Instructor, Reviewer _www.maryquattlebaum.com_
(http://www.maryquattlebaum.com)  
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