Secrets of the Garden: Food Chains and the Food Web in Our Backyard

Perfect for spring planting season--an outstanding book about backyard science the whole family will appreciate. Alices family plants a vegetable garden each spring and this budding naturalist reports all she sees about how the plants grow what insects come to eat the plants and what birds and animals come to eat the insects. Its the food chain right in her own backyard! While Alices narrative is simple and engaging science concepts are presented in more depth in sidebars by a pair of very knowledgeable (and highly amusing) chickens! Noted science writer Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld knows how to layer information to make it accessible to a wide range of readers and useful for educators. And illustrator Priscilla Lamonts funny friendly paintings make this a garden everyone will want to explore. Kids will eat up this wonderful book of backyard scienceand perhaps theyll even be inspired to eat their vegetables! "A wonderfully informative and enjoyable journey through one familys backyard garden from spring planting to fall harvest. . . . this is bound to spark some backyard explorations." Kirkus Starred Review