A Baby's Garden: Introducing Your Baby to the Joys of the Garden

This is a terrific book to introduce your child to gardening and also most have 2 pages to record: Cloud Watching - the date & the shape of the cloud Flowerbed Design / seeds planted - the flower, it's color & it's height Counting in the Garden - number & description Our Garden Party - the date, guest list, menu, activities and special memories Creepy Crawling Friends - name / type, date found, place found and room for notes Colors in the Garden - Color, plant/bird & child's pronounciation Special Memories And then sprinkled in between these pages is are 1 page on Rain, Strawberries, Moon & Stars, Sounds, Leaves, and Snow! I have many precious memories of gardening with my mother planting flowers and asking their names, I love that this book will help me record these special times with my daughter so she too will maybe make her world brighter with flowers, and give her a look into her childhood that she might or might not remember! A must have for any parent who loves to garden and wants to continue this love with their child.

A Baby's Garden "Introducing Your Baby to the Joy of the Garden" Elizabeth St. Cloud Muse Illustrated by: Eva Saull Published by: Little, Brown and Company 2001 ISBN: 0-316-60873-4 Nonfiction"A Baby's Garden" is a lovely way for gardening parent's to introduce their love of horticulture and nature with their most precious new addition. The opening page has a frame to put the little one's picture in. Each section has a list of suggested activities followed by pages to record your adventures in. The cutest thing is a place to put babies muddy handprints during different stages of their growth. Babies love the chance to get dirty without Mom or Dad panicking. There are a couple of pages in the back with wax paper type envelopes attached where you can press the child's first flowers, leaves, etc. As a gardener I believe this would be a wonderful way to explore the garden with your infant and allow both parent and child to experience the joys of the garden and continue learning

What a great idea! My boys love to be in the garden with me, talking about the things that we discover there. I will always cherish the time we spend in the garden, and what better way to remember it. The illustrations are adorable. :)