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My Garden (2010)

by Kevin Henkes(Favorite Author)

3.91 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

0061715174 (ISBN13: 9780061715174)

languge

English

genre

Fantasy

publisher

Greenwillow Books

review 1: I love the concept of this book - a little girl who, while helping her mother in their garden, imagines the type of garden *she* would have. Her imagination is endless, from planting seashells to grow seashells, to jellybeans to grow candy plants, to all sorts of things in between!I did feel though that the book needed more connection (the things to plant felt a little too random for me). And the bit about there not being real bunnies in the girl's garden, but instead chocolate bunnies that she could eat seemed just a little disturbing (not that I think it was meant that way, but, it was just a little odd for me...). Plus, I would love real rabbits way more than chocolate ones
review 2: The bold use of color in this book is astounding! I love how Kevin Henkes u... moreses so many different colors to illustrate My Garden. Most of the illustrations in this picture book are full-bleed. A few illustrations are framed by a rough-edge circle. The text is centered on the page opposite the illustration. The story is about an imaginative little girl who helps her mother take care of the family garden. She shows up in every illustration with her pink dress and straw hat. The little girl imagines what she would grow in her very own garden. She comes up with some pretty ingenious ideas like a garden with no weeds and flowers that never die. She imagines growing sea shells and having a jelly bean bush. I think everyone would grow a jelly bean bush in their garden if they could. This is another great example of Kevin Henkes' ability to capture the imagination and curiosity of a child. less

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