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Helped by her father, a young girl prepares a flower garden as a birthday surprise for her mother.
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LibraryThing member wendyfincher
This book is about a little girl who was spending time with her dad and getting her mom a birthday present. They purchased flowers and rode the bus home. They lived in an apartment so they made a window box flower garden for her mom. This book has vivid colors and is very enjoyable. It can be read
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LibraryThing member olive_mucho
The story is about a young girl who is shopping for a box of flowers. The little girl gathers all the different flowers and boxes them up bring it home and fertilizes the soil and prepares the box of flowers for a window sill. After the flower gardens are ready we find out the garden is for her
I do feel some kind of relation to the story because my mother always had a garden and that is what I mainly bough for her birthday. Also, the story talks about a garden on the window sill and when I lived in New Jersey we also had a window garden.
I would use the story in a lesson for gardening ans different ways people can make a garden. I would also allow the student to create a garden and let them do hands on work with soil and how plant grow.
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mother.I do feel some kind of relation to the story because my mother always had a garden and that is what I mainly bough for her birthday. Also, the story talks about a garden on the window sill and when I lived in New Jersey we also had a window garden.
I would use the story in a lesson for gardening ans different ways people can make a garden. I would also allow the student to create a garden and let them do hands on work with soil and how plant grow.
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LibraryThing member mildred981
Flower Garden is a story about a little girl who wants to get her mother flowers for her birthday. Both her and her father go out together and pick up the supplies, then later come home and plant them in the box outside the window. The author then goes into great detail describing each flower and
I love how in this story the author shows the father being caring and taking on the mother role. Also, it was good to see a African American male portrayed in a positive way in a children book because there are very few books out there.
A fun activity to do with this story would be for teachers to have kids plant a flower and give it to their mothers on Mother’s day or Father’s day. Also this is good book to read aloud to your class if you have African American in your class room.
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its vibrant color. Then they light the birthday cake and surprise the mother.I love how in this story the author shows the father being caring and taking on the mother role. Also, it was good to see a African American male portrayed in a positive way in a children book because there are very few books out there.
A fun activity to do with this story would be for teachers to have kids plant a flower and give it to their mothers on Mother’s day or Father’s day. Also this is good book to read aloud to your class if you have African American in your class room.
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LibraryThing member JordySizemordy
Summary
This story sends you through a journey with a young girl as she constructs a flower garden box for the window of her apartment. It is finally revealed in the end that the flowers were for her mother.
Reaction
The rhyming is soothing and simplistic. It would be good to read to a younger
Extension Ideas
Ask the principal if it would be okay for your class to build a garden in a designated area around the school grounds.
Have each of the students make flowers out of construction paper to bring home to their mothers. guardians, grandmothers, etc.
This story sends you through a journey with a young girl as she constructs a flower garden box for the window of her apartment. It is finally revealed in the end that the flowers were for her mother.
Reaction
The rhyming is soothing and simplistic. It would be good to read to a younger
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audience such as kindergarten because of the writing technique and the very vivid illustrations.Extension Ideas
Ask the principal if it would be okay for your class to build a garden in a designated area around the school grounds.
Have each of the students make flowers out of construction paper to bring home to their mothers. guardians, grandmothers, etc.
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LibraryThing member reecek
Another book about family diversity, this will be a book that you and your child can switch off reading the pages because it is a book that is close to their reading level!
LibraryThing member KatieKirk
Summary:
This story is about a girl who goes to the market with her dad to buy flowers for her mom's birthday. The book is about an African American family who lives in an apartment in the city. The book is written in rhymes.
Personal Reaction:
This is a cute story about a family that is very
Classroom Extension Ideas:
1. This would be a good book to read before a discussion on birthdays. We could talk about how different families celebrate and the similarities between families.
2. The illustrations were created with oil paint. I would have the students create their own colorful flower gardens.
This story is about a girl who goes to the market with her dad to buy flowers for her mom's birthday. The book is about an African American family who lives in an apartment in the city. The book is written in rhymes.
Personal Reaction:
This is a cute story about a family that is very
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different from my own, which is what makes it so fun to read. I love the realistic, colorful illustrations throughout the book. Also, I really enjoyed that the story was told through rhymes.Classroom Extension Ideas:
1. This would be a good book to read before a discussion on birthdays. We could talk about how different families celebrate and the similarities between families.
2. The illustrations were created with oil paint. I would have the students create their own colorful flower gardens.
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LibraryThing member Kourtlin.Harrison
Summary: This book is about a girl that is going to shop for flowers with her father. After they go to the store, they plant the flowers in a flower pot and put it on the window sill. The flowers draw the attention of everyone that sees them. At the end, the girl gives the flower box to her mother
Personal Reaction: This book made me think of all the times my dad and I would go buy a present for my mom. I would always get really excited to give it to her and it was also a time that I would get to spend time with my dad.
Classroom Extension Ideas:
1. The class could learn about different types of flowers and do a school project in which they plant flowers around the school. This would show the significance of community service while also teaching them about plants.
2. The class could take a trip to a local green house. They could learn about how green houses work and about the flowers that are grown there.
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for her birthday.Personal Reaction: This book made me think of all the times my dad and I would go buy a present for my mom. I would always get really excited to give it to her and it was also a time that I would get to spend time with my dad.
Classroom Extension Ideas:
1. The class could learn about different types of flowers and do a school project in which they plant flowers around the school. This would show the significance of community service while also teaching them about plants.
2. The class could take a trip to a local green house. They could learn about how green houses work and about the flowers that are grown there.
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LibraryThing member shanetia
Summary:
This book is about a girl that is planning a surprise for her mother. The little girl planted a beautiful garden containing a variety of flowers. On her mother's birthday the little girl surprises her mother with the garden.
Personal Reaction:
This book is beautiful! I really love the way
Classroom Extension:
1. I would plant a garden with my students.
2. I would place the birthday of each students' mother on a calendar. Then,I would have my students make flowers out of paper and on their mother/guardian's birthday, they will bring home a special surprise (the flowers they made).
This book is about a girl that is planning a surprise for her mother. The little girl planted a beautiful garden containing a variety of flowers. On her mother's birthday the little girl surprises her mother with the garden.
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This book is beautiful! I really love the way
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the bright flowers added color to the dull community. Eventhough a person might live in an area that not so pleasant, they are able to make the area beautiful just by adding a simple touch of a flower.Classroom Extension:
1. I would plant a garden with my students.
2. I would place the birthday of each students' mother on a calendar. Then,I would have my students make flowers out of paper and on their mother/guardian's birthday, they will bring home a special surprise (the flowers they made).
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LibraryThing member Tinker84
SUMMARY:A little girl and her dad buy flowers, potting soil, and a window box at the supermarket. She thinks that the garden in the shopping cart looks great & she can hardly wait. After arriving home on a bus and carefully climbing upstairs, they replant the flowers in the window box and put
PERSONAL REACTION: I thought it was a sweet and surprising story.
EXTENSION IDEAS: This would be a good book to help children learn how to plant and garden because it has a list of flowers, list of tools, & a lot of them can relate to living in a city or town.
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candles on a cake. The flowers and cake were for her mother on her birthday. PERSONAL REACTION: I thought it was a sweet and surprising story.
EXTENSION IDEAS: This would be a good book to help children learn how to plant and garden because it has a list of flowers, list of tools, & a lot of them can relate to living in a city or town.
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LibraryThing member margo05
A great family book full of love. A father and daughter spends the day together taking a trip to the store to buy flowers to plant a garden. They ride the bus to store once they are there after buying groceries their next purchase were flowers for their garden. After the get home and plant the
Personal Reaction
I loved this book. The storyline was so soft and made me feel special. It made me think about the grocery store trips with my father. I like how the dad and daughter spend time together. Pictures in this book were great and so vivid. This book can be use in many ways in a discussion. The book was full of rhymes.
Extension Activities
1. Read at a male involvement day. Take pictures of male in the child's life and make their frame.
2. Plant flowers after reading the story discuss the steps of planting flowers.
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flowers in a flower box the father makes a cake. When mom comes home she fines a happy birthday surprise of cake and the pretty flowers that father and daughter had planted in a flower box on the window sill.Personal Reaction
I loved this book. The storyline was so soft and made me feel special. It made me think about the grocery store trips with my father. I like how the dad and daughter spend time together. Pictures in this book were great and so vivid. This book can be use in many ways in a discussion. The book was full of rhymes.
Extension Activities
1. Read at a male involvement day. Take pictures of male in the child's life and make their frame.
2. Plant flowers after reading the story discuss the steps of planting flowers.
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LibraryThing member JessicaFayeD
Summary:
At the beginning of the story the little girl and her father go to the store to get some beautiful flowers to plant in a pot. They buy all kinds of different flowers and they take them to the house to plant. After they plant the flowers they set them in the window seal and start making a
Personal Reaction:
This was a very sweet book. I thought it was very cool how the father took the little girl to the store to get the flowers to plant for the mother and how they made a cake for her.
Classroom Extension Ideas:
This would be a good book to read to children so that they will want to do nice things for their moms and dads. Then teach them it is the small things that matter the most to parents.
At the beginning of the story the little girl and her father go to the store to get some beautiful flowers to plant in a pot. They buy all kinds of different flowers and they take them to the house to plant. After they plant the flowers they set them in the window seal and start making a
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cake. At the end of the story the little girls mother came home and they surprised her with the flowers and cake for her birthday.Personal Reaction:
This was a very sweet book. I thought it was very cool how the father took the little girl to the store to get the flowers to plant for the mother and how they made a cake for her.
Classroom Extension Ideas:
This would be a good book to read to children so that they will want to do nice things for their moms and dads. Then teach them it is the small things that matter the most to parents.
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LibraryThing member sammarocco
A girl is at the grocery with her father and gets all types of flowers. She plants them in a window sill box and surprises her mom with them for her birthday.
LibraryThing member Fran01
3yrs.-6yrs.
The story is great, as the father and daughter walk the city street and ride the bus, the daughter planting the flowers with her father; the mother coming home from school to see her birthday surprise. I realli like the pictures very bright colors.
The story is great, as the father and daughter walk the city street and ride the bus, the daughter planting the flowers with her father; the mother coming home from school to see her birthday surprise. I realli like the pictures very bright colors.
LibraryThing member dukefan86
This was a fun book to read and look at for this apartment-dwelling flower lover! The illustrations included colorful flowers, which Bunting calls by name. Enjoyable book.
LibraryThing member matthewbloome
This was a pleasant primary text with a distinctly urban point of view describing a young girl's effort to plant a flower box outside the window of her family's high-rise apartment. It's a rhyming text and the illustrations are beautifully done. There is a slight twist at the end of the text
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revealing the girl's purpose for all her efforts and the story ends sweetly. Show Less
LibraryThing member rarewren
The sweet story of a girl and her dad buying flowers in their vibrant urban neighborhood and then returning home to plant a window box garden as a surprise for Mom's birthday. The gorgeous, colorful spreads paint the narrative in fascinating detail, with shifting perspectives and flowers as a
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recurring motif. The gently rhyming text is perfectly paced for story time. Show Less
LibraryThing member ssmith93
I thought this story was ok. I really liked the simplistic approach with rhyming. The illustrations were colorful and engaging.
LibraryThing member nlinco1
In my opinion this is another wonderful book by Eve Bunting's. This poetic picture book, "Flower Garden" is beautifully illustrated with big bold colors and immense detail. The characters and street corners look very soft and realistic. The poem tells a story of a young girl's journey from a shop
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to her home where she creates a flower box for her mother's birthday. My favorite quality of this book is the word choice, which creates a nice flow from page to page. For example in the book one page reads, "Garden in a window box/ High above the street." On the next page, "Where butterflies can stop and rest/ And ladybugs can meet." The experiences of this child are relatable and appropriate for the young audience who also have worked hard to create a gift. Show Less
LibraryThing member MWsmith7
This is a beautifully illustrated story of a child and her father buying flowers and potting them together for display in the window of their city apartment. It was not only a bonding experience for the two but also a birthday present for her mother.
As I was reading, I had wondered why she was so
1. Plant our own plants and make a classroom garden.
2. Create cards and grow an assortment of flowers around mother’s day for a mother’s day present (or other guardian if no mother figure)
As I was reading, I had wondered why she was so
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excited to buy flowers; maybe she had a young love for botany? When it was concluded that they were a gift for her mother, I found it quite endearing.1. Plant our own plants and make a classroom garden.
2. Create cards and grow an assortment of flowers around mother’s day for a mother’s day present (or other guardian if no mother figure)
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LibraryThing member mtrail3
I liked this children's picture book. The plot features a little girl and her father going to the store to buy flowers to plant in a window box as a surprise for the mother's birthday. I like how the book uses repetitive words and phrases and the rhyming pattern the author chose to use creates a
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steady fluent read aloud. The print is large, short and purposeful and the pictures are colorful and realistic. Many children would like this book and be able to relate to it. Show Less
LibraryThing member jfe16
A delightful tale of a little girl who makes a beautiful spring flower box. But why was it so important to her to create this spring flower garden?
This pleasant verse will appeal to young readers. The illustrations, originally done as oil paintings on paper and reproduced here for this book, are
Highly recommended.
This pleasant verse will appeal to young readers. The illustrations, originally done as oil paintings on paper and reproduced here for this book, are
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captivating. A book certain to charm readers, young and old alike.Highly recommended.
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LibraryThing member Lilith13
This is a great story about a little girl and her dad that build a garden window box for the girls mother
age 2-5
age 2-5
LibraryThing member Whisper1
This is a beautifully illustrated story of a family who live in an apartment building. The mother and father purchase a flower box, soil and many lovely flowers to carefully place in the box and place in on the ledge of their apartment window.
The colors chosen are lovely and make a stunning present
The entire process of finding the right sized box, and the flowers that reflect the most visual color that people beloew can find joy when looking up.
The colors chosen are lovely and make a stunning present
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for the father and daughter to put together as a surprise to be placed on the outside ledge of the apartment window.The entire process of finding the right sized box, and the flowers that reflect the most visual color that people beloew can find joy when looking up.
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Awards
CCBC Choices (1994)
NCTE Adventuring with Books: A Booklist for Pre-K—Grade 6 (11th Edition: 1993-1995)
Original publication date
1994