Maisy Grows a Garden

by Lucy Cousins

Overview

What makes Maisy’s garden grow? Children can pull the tabs and help Maisy plant and grow a tasty vegetable garden.

Maisy loves to try new things, just like her young fans. This interactive science story invites toddlers and preschoolers to help Maisy dig, sow seeds, water the earth, and weed the garden. Little ones will love seeing the carrots, lettuce, tomatoes, and beans spring from the pages as they take the first steps to develop a green thumb with Maisy and Panda.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780763662424
Publisher:	Candlewick Press
Publication date:	02/26/2013
Series:	Maisy Series
Pages:	16
Product dimensions:	9.44(w) x 9.12(h) x 0.84(d)
Age Range:	18 Months to 4 Years

About the Author

Lucy Cousins is the creator of the beloved Maisy series. She is also the author-illustrator of the widely acclaimed Yummy: Eight Favorite Fairy Tales, a New York Times Book Review Best Illustrated Children’s Book of the Year, as well as I’m the Best and Hooray for Fish! Lucy Cousins lives in Hampshire, England.

Editorial Reviews

Helpful groundbreaking for budding gardeners.
—Kirkus Reviews

Brightly hued gouache illustrations and cheerful text provide a very satisfying earth-science lesson for little ones. The sturdy tabs are marked with arrows to show which direction to pull, and they move quite easily as they provide several surprises to excite young readers. As always, Cousins is spot on for the preschool set.
—The Sunday Plain Dealer (Cleveland)

From the Publisher

Have fun helping Maisy grow her garden in this entertaining and educational book from the beloved "Maisy" series! This interactive book teaches kids the science of planting a garden and growing vegetables. Each page introduces gardening objects—seeds, a shovel, a watering can—and depicts Maisy and her buddy Panda doing different tasks in the garden. With moveable flaps, kids can feel like they are helping Maisy and Panda by pulling the tabs to dig the soil, plant the seeds, water and pull the weeds. They will later be rewarded when they pull the last tabs and see the delicious vegetables and blossoming flowers that have grown thanks to the work put into the garden. Kids can see that gardening takes hard work, but after having fun working on the garden with Maisy and Panda, they will likely want to venture out to plant and tend one of their own! Reviewer: Jillian Kobelin

Children's Literature - Jillian Kobelin

2013-09-25
Not Maisy's first garden but perhaps her most bountiful. With assists from pull tabs, Maisy digs, plants, waters, weeds and finally harvests a vegetable garden (with help from Panda, who also plants sunflower seeds). Like the snail, earthworm and various insects that look on, children will smile as seedlings rise from the rich, chocolate-brown earth--putting down visible roots, too. With proper care, they turn into carrots and lettuce, clusters of green beans and ripe tomatoes hanging beneath lush greenery. A topical glossary to the left of each growing scene introduces words like "watering can" and "dandelion." Kicking off her muddy boots in the final spread, Maisy leans back to enjoy the fruits of her labor and admire the sunflowers that unfold atop tall stems: "How beautiful the plants are!" Helpful groundbreaking for budding gardeners, despite moving parts that are far from toddler-proof. (Pop up/picture book. 3-4)

Kirkus Reviews