The Forever Garden

About this book

Perfect for fans of the Caldecott Honor Book The Gardener by Sarah Stewart and David Small heres a heartwarming spring picture book about gardening and friendship. Every day Honey tends her garden thinning the lettuces pulling up beets and even singing to the kale. (Honey says if you listen carefully you can hear the kale singing back!) Laurel the little girl who lives next door likes to help weeding the rows washing vegetables under the pump and gathering speckled eggs from the chicken coop. But one day there is a FOR SALE sign in Honeys front yard. Honeys mother is sick and she is moving away! What will happen to Honeys garden? And what will Laurel do without her friend? Here is a touching story that beautifully illustrates how friendshipjust like a gardengrows. Praise for Swan: The Life and Dance of Anna Pavlova by Laurel Snyder: "Spare poetic words sit as lightly as snowflakes." The Wall Street Journal