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Busy in the Garden

by George Shannon
Illustrated by Sam Williams



      Busy in the Garden is a lovely - and most certainly lively book for kids. Colorful drawings of dancing watermelons, larger than life carrots, happy bunnies, gardening babies and so on. It's a large, hardcover edition easily held by both parent and child. The lyrically-fun prose shares the joys of gardening. The author celebrates growing veggies, flowers, and clover. He even gives child size garden tips. The book is expressive, bright, fun, teasing, quizzing, and rhyming. The watercolor drawings are full of humor, animals, people and a couple of surprises....

Here is my favorite rhyme!

Dancing in the Breeze

I went to the garden
to pick some peas.
Found them dancing
in the evening breeze.

The day was hot,
so I joined right in.
Tapping my toes
and began to grin.

Peppers in a polka
as the snow peas snapped.
Beans in a boogie
as the cabbage clapped.

Squash square dancing
with a cha-cha chard.
Watermelon waltzing
all around the yard.

Picked my supper
with the greatest ease -
Everything swinging
in the dancing breeze.

The Book

Greenwillow
February 28, 2006
Hardcover
0060004657
Children's rhyming picture book [ages preschool - 8]
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The Reviewer

Brenda Weeaks
Reviewed 2006
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