Want birds, bees, butterflies and bugs in your garden? Pajaros, abejos, mariposas y bichos. Colorea Mi Jardin, a 32-page habitat gardening coloring book in Spanish, presents pictures and puzzles to help kids 5-10 years old learn how to bring these friendly creatures into the garden. It's fun and instructive without being preachy. Colorea Mi Jardin invites kids and their parents or teachers to work on the coloring book together, reading the 2-3 sentences of text and then creatively coloring the line drawing pictures. What a perfect book for schools with gardens--one for each child in the...

Howie goes head to head with his cantankerous neighbor Mrs. Hatcher who uses a tennis racquet to swing at the hummingbirds in her garden. A great admirer of hummers and fearful for their lives, Howie tries to figure out why Mrs. Hatcher behaves as she does and how to stop her. Does he? Howie's Hungabird Dilemma is the heart-warming story of his love of hummingbirds and his quest to stop Mrs. Hatcher from harming his favorite little bird. His little sister Carole Ann jumps into the fray as well. Literally This is the fifth of Sandy's children's gardening books with a plot. It's jam-packed...

Young Gai is definitely annoyed in Sandy Baker's latest book, Gai's Go-Away-Come-Back Garden, when his parents go away and leave him with a babysitter. Gina deftly handles the situation by showing Gai the natural rhythms of a garden with the comings and goings of snails, lightning bugs, butterflies, and perennial flowers. Sandy gently blends gardening information into this fun and educational book that students, parents and teachers will enjoy.