Illustrations and easy-to-read, rhyming text invite the reader to a community garden where potatoes close their eyes, cabbages nod their heads, and corn covers its ears to go to sleep.

When her desperately ill older brother insists that she take him into their mysterious backyard garden, designed by their quantum physicist great uncle, fourteen-year-old Susan discovers that things are not always what they seem.

A girl and her mother spend the day gathering vegetables, fruit, and herbs from their garden.

In this garden the reader learns to count from one watering can to ten snails, from twenty weepy onions to fifty cherry pies and even to 233 peas.

Depicts a gnome at work and play in his garden.

Sitting quietly in his garden, a little boy observes the eating habits of birds, bugs, butterflies, and other small animals. Includes instructions on how to make your own garden and a detailed illustration of plants typically found in a garden.

A young girl and her friends spend the day dressing up like the insects and animals they find in the garden.

Harriet feels terrible after accidentally trampling a neighbor's garden and ruining her prize dahlia, until she confesses and sets things right.