Our Community Garden
By Barbara Pollak
(Aladdin/Beyond Words, Hardcover, 9781582701097, 32pp.)
Publication Date: August 1, 2004
Categories: Nature & the Natural World - Gardening, Social Issues - Community & Neighborhood
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In this special garden, each child plants an item that reflects their personality and/or ethnic heritage. Barbara Pollak's delightful illustrations show what the children do there - from playing hide-and-seek around giant sunflowers and counting ladybugs to weeding, digging, and making compost mazes. The garden provides a venue for all the children and their families to gather and celebrate with a potluck of dishes made from the garden's harvest. Readers will enjoy following the progress of the garden and will be inspired to start one of their own.
Barbara Pollak is an illustrator, animator, and writer who specializes in children and teen markets. She has created illustrations for Girls' Life, Scholastic, and Rodale Press. Recently she illustrated the popular book Girl Stuff for Harcourt Brace and the preteen fiction series Dish.
"Pollak's quirky, vibrant artwork adds pizzazz to this straightforward story.... If the characters' enjoyment in gardening doesn't convince some youngsters to try raising plants themselves, the splendid feast at the end may at least encourage them to taste some unfamiliar vegetable dishes."
—School Library Journal
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