The Big Orange Splot was one of my favorite childhood books! I always loved it when the neighbors said that he had “knots in his noodle” - hilarious even when you are five. This does inspire me to go a little more against the grain in my own yard, but there might some city regulations regarding an alligator.
I loved The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett as a kid! I read it so many times. I was enchanted by the wildness of the moor and delighted by Mary’s discovery of a garden-gone-wild behind the hidden door in the wall.
Another lovely book is THE CURIOUS GARDEN by Peter Brown. A little boy finds a lonely patch of colorful wildflowers and what others might call weeds on an abandoned train track above the city. On repeated trips to the tracks, he’s sees them struggling and starts to tend them until they travel down the tracks. Folks start noticing the colors in their otherwise drab world and everyone gets involved until the whole landscape changes.
The Big Orange Splot was one of my favorite childhood books! I always loved it when the neighbors said that he had “knots in his noodle” - hilarious even when you are five. This does inspire me to go a little more against the grain in my own yard, but there might some city regulations regarding an alligator.
I loved The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett as a kid! I read it so many times. I was enchanted by the wildness of the moor and delighted by Mary’s discovery of a garden-gone-wild behind the hidden door in the wall.
Another lovely book is THE CURIOUS GARDEN by Peter Brown. A little boy finds a lonely patch of colorful wildflowers and what others might call weeds on an abandoned train track above the city. On repeated trips to the tracks, he’s sees them struggling and starts to tend them until they travel down the tracks. Folks start noticing the colors in their otherwise drab world and everyone gets involved until the whole landscape changes.