Title and Credits	Age	Synopsis
	Miss Rumphius Barbara Cooney	4-8	As a child Great-aunt Alice Rumphius resolved that when she grew up she would go to faraway places, live by the sea in her old age, and do something to make the world more beautiful--and she does all those things, the last being the most difficult of all.
	Camille and the Sunflowers Laurence Anholt	4-8	Despite the derision of their neighbors, a young French boy and his family befriend the lonely painter who comes to their town and begin to admire his unusual paintings.
	Tops and Bottoms Janet Stevens	4-8	Hare turns his bad luck around by striking a clever deal with the rich and lazy bear down the road.
	Carrot Seed Ruth Krauss, Crockett Johnson	4-8	Despite everyone's dire predictions, a little boy has faith in the carrot seed he plants.
	The Tale of Peter Rabbit Beatrix Potter	4-8	Peter disobeys his mother by going into Mr. McGregor's garden and almost gets caught.
	Mrs. Spitzer's Garden Edith Pattou, Mary Beth Owens	4-8	With her sure, loving, gardener's touch, Mrs. Spitzer nurtures the students in her classroom each year.
	Brother Eagle, Sister Sky Susan Jeffers	9-12	A Suquamish Indian chief describes his people's respect and love for the earth, and concern for its destruction.
	The Lorax Dr. Seuss	4-8	The Once-ler describes the results of the local pollution problem.
	Linnea in Monet's Garden Christina Bjork, Lena Anderson	9-12	A little girl visits the home and garden of Claude Monet at Giverny, France, and learns about the artist's paintings and his life. The illustrations include photographs of the painter and his family as well as examples of his work.
	Oliver's Vegetables Vivian French	4-8	While visiting his grandfather, who has a wonderful garden, Oliver learns to eat vegetables other than potatoes.
	Lily's Garden Deborah Kogan Ray	4-8	A young girl in Maine and her grandmother in California exchange letters and packages which reflect cycles of planting and harvesting in their different climates.
	Sunflower House Eve Bunting, Kathryn Hewitt	4-8	A young boy creates a summer playhouse by planting sunflowers and saves the seeds to make another house the next year.
	The Secret Garden Frances Hodgson Burnett, Mary Collier	9-12	Ten-year-old Mary comes to live in a lonely house on the Yorkshire moors and discovers an invalid cousin and the mysteries of a locked garden.
	The Ugly Vegetables Grace Lin	4-8	A little girl thinks her mother's garden is the ugliest in the neighborhood until she discovers that flowers might look and smell pretty but Chinese vegetable soup smells best of all. Includes a recipe.
	Sunflower Sal Janet S. Anderson, Elizabeth Johns	4-8	Sal, a very big girl, cannot sew a quilt like Gran's no matter how hard she tries, but eventually she finds that her talents lie elsewhere.
	Two Old Potatoes and Me John Coy, Carolyn Fisher	4-8	After a young girl finds two old potatoes at her father's house, they plant and tend them to see if they will have new potatoes in September.
	How Groundhog's Garden Grew Lynne Cherry	4-8	Squirrel teaches Little Groundhog how to plant and tend a vegetable garden.
	The Shaman's Apprentice Lynne Cherry, Mark J. Plotkin	4-8	Kamanya believes in the shaman's wisdom about the healing properties of plants found in the Amazon rain forest and hopes one day to be a healer for his people.
	The Great Kapok Tree Lynne Cherry	4-8	The many different animals that live in a great kapok tree in the Brazilian rainforest try to convince a man with an ax of the importance of not cutting down their home.
	Inch by Inch: A Garden Song David Mallett	4-8	Inch by inch, row by row, a child grows a garden with the help of the rain and the earth. Based on a popular folksong.
	Once there Was a Tree Natalia Romanova, Gennady Spirin	4-8	An old stump attracts many living creatures, even man, and when it is gone, a new tree attracts the same creatures, who need it for a variety of reasons.
	I Will Never Not Ever Eat a Tomato Lauren Child	4-6	A fussy eater decides to sample the carrots after her brother convinces her that they are really orange twiglets from Jupiter.
	Weslandia  Paul Fleischman, Kevin Hawkes	4-8	Wesley's garden produces a crop of huge, strange plants which provide him with clothing, shelter, food, and drink, thus helping him create his own civilization and changing his life.
	The Gardener Sarah Stewart, David Small	9-12	A series of letters relating what happens when, after her father loses his job, Lydia Grace goes to live with her Uncle Jim in the city but takes her love for gardening with her.
	The Giving Tree  Shel Silverstein	4-8	A young boy grows to manhood and old age experiencing the love and generosity of a tree which gives to him without thought of return.
	Whose Garden is it?  Mary Ann Hoberman	4-8	When Mrs. McGee walks through a garden wondering whose it is, all of the plants and animals as well as the sun and the gardener claim it as their own.
	Clara Caterpillar Pamela Duncan Edwards	4-8	By camouflaging herself, Clara Caterpillar, who becomes a cream-colored butterfly, courageously saves Catisha the crimson-colored butterfly from a hungry crow.
	The Leaf Men  William Joyce	9-12	When an old woman gets sick and her garden begins to die, the doodle bugs call on the Leaf Men to make things right again.
	Too Many Pumpkins Linda White, Megan Lloyd	4-8	Rebecca Estelle, an old woman who has hated pumpkins ever since she was a girl and her family had nothing else to eat, finds herself with a full crop of them.
	The Tin Forest  Helen Ward, Wayne Anderson	4-8	An old man's persistent dreams transform an old junkyard into a beautiful forest full of life.
	The Lotus Seed  Sherry Garland, Tatusuro Kiuchi	9-12	A story of hope and epiphany and the importance of family heritage. A young Vietnamese girl takes a lotus seed from the Imperial Garden. Years later, her grandson plants it in his garden--where it blooms again.
	Scarlette Beane  Karen Wallace, Jon Berkley	4-8	When family members give five-year-old Scarlette a garden, she succeeds in growing gigantic vegetables and creating something wonderful.
	Wild Child  Lynn Plourde, Greg Couch	4-8	Mother Earth attempts to put her wild child, Autumn, to bed.
	Wanda's Roses  Pat Brisson, Maryann Cocca-Leffler	4-8	When Wanda discovers a thornbush growing in an empty lot, she's sure it's a rosebush all ready to bloom. Wanda clears away the trash and waters it every day. A warmhearted story and vibrant illustrations about a child's simple faith.
	Empty Pot  Demi	4-8	When Ping admits that he is the only child in China unable to grow a flower from the seeds distributed by the Emperor, he is rewarded for his honesty.
	Pumpkins  Mary Lyn Ray, Barry Root	4-8	A man harvests and sells a bountiful crop of pumpkins so that he will be able to preserve the field from developers.
	The Tiny Seed  Eric Carle	4-8	A great story for  younger children describing a flowering plant's life cycle through the seasons.
	Plantzilla  Jerdine Nolen, David Catrow	4-8	In a series of letters a boy, his science teacher, and his parents discuss the progress of a very unusual, sometimes frightening, plant that becomes more human as the summer progresses.
	A Place to Grow  Stephanie Bloom, Kelly Murphy	4-8	A seed is desperate to find a place to grow in this tale with a powerful message.
	The Gazebo  Ethel Pochocki, Mary Beth Owens	9-12	The story of young elegant girl and her wandering around the world through the pages of a book about found in her father's library.