To get your family gardening project off on the right foot, consider an age-appropriate book on gardening. This will also help build your child’s enthusiasm. Included below are a couple of books for parents too, to help make your family garden a success.
The Little Gardener by Jan Gerardi (ages 3-4)
The Little Gardener by Emily Hughes (ages 3-7)
Up in the Garden and Down in the Dirt by Kate Messner (ages 5-8)
Roots, Shoots, Buckets & Boots: Gardening Together with Children by Sharon Lovejoy (ages 4-10)
Gardening Lab for Kids: 52 Fun Experiments to Learn, Grow, Harvest, Make, Play, and Enjoy Your Garden by Renata Brown (ages 8-12)
The Book of Gardening Projects for Kids: 101 Ways to Get Kids Outside, Dirty, and Having Fun by Whitney Cohen (for parents)
This article appears in Capital City Parent May 2019.
