Picture A Garden Blog Tour: Review & Giveaway

Do you have a little one who wishes to grow a garden at home but has no clue about how to get started? Linda Hornberg's new book Picture A Garden would certainly come in handy. Check it out and enter to win a signed copy!

About the Book:

Book Title: Picture A Garden by Linda Hornberg
Category: Middle-Grade Non-Fiction (Ages 8-12), 160 pages
Genre: Children's Non-Fiction
Publisher: Peanut Butter Publishing
Publication Date: January 28, 2025
Tour Dates: Feb 10 to Mar 7, 2025
Content Rating: G: Topics only include gardening and being outdoors.

What springs to mind when you hear the word GARDEN? Would it surprise you to learn that the world just outside your door is overflowing with art, science, humor, drama, intrigue, and colorful personalities? Nature has you surrounded. It's time to come out with your hands gloved and your feet galoshed, ready to sow some spinach, pick a peony, mulch a maple, root a rose, graft a grape, stake a spruce, water a walnut, and hug a hemlock.

Set down your screens and take up your trowel.

Adventure awaits!

The stories inside this book are nearly all true. I have never actually seen a chorus line of worms decked out in feather boas, but I can guarantee that there are plenty of real-life larvae out there merrily chewing up the scenery. You can turn orange from eating too many carrots, and there really is a tiny plant island called a liverwart--although there probably are no tiny castaways living on it. Welcome to gardening for smarties. Never stop thinking, wondering, and digging, and you’ll never be bored. Have fun.

My Review:

Written with humor and expertise, Picture A Garden is an engaging and informative book about gardening, plant science, and the great outdoors. From the origin of species to seasonal changes, the book introduces young readers to a wide variety of plants and animals, the cycle of life, symbiotic relationships in a balanced ecosystem, gardening tips and tricks, and so much more!

What sets the book apart from other gardening guides is its distinctive writing and illustration style. The hand-drawn pictures and hand-written letters give the feel of precious and private notes with a wealth of secret information that get discovered from a treasure hunt. A tremendous amount of in-depth knowledge is made accessible and intriguing through comical cartoons and casual chitter-chatter. 

It's not a book meant to be finished in one sitting, but one that encourages the readers to come back and continue with what they find to be most interesting or most useful. While focusing on the joy and wonder of gardening, the book goes well beyond horticulture to nurture the love for nature.

Both entertaining and educational, Picture A Garden makes a fun-filled field guide for budding gardeners and nature explorers. Powered by the author's passion and profound knowledge of the field, the book is bound to inspire many to start their own adventure in organic gardening.

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About the Author:

Linda Robin Hornberg grew up in New York, drawing endless paper dolls and adventure comics with her sisters, Brenda and Heidi. She also enjoyed collecting shiny mimosa seeds in little bottles, nibbling parsley from Mom's tomato patch, sword fighting with Iris leaves and flipping cicadas back onto their feet. Her incessant doodling landed her at the Hartford Art School. She received her BFA in Printmaking from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Further formal studies led to classes in children's illustration and certification in landscape horticulture.

Linda is a permanent transplant to Seattle, where she remains an enthusiastic gardener, insatiable reader, unapologetic punster, and incurable cat lady. Please do not offer her your strays.

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One lucky reader will win a copy of Picture A Garden signed by Linda Hornberg!

Giveaway ends 3/14. Open to US & Canada. Please enter below. Good luck!

PICTURE A GARDEN by Linda Hornberg Book Tour Giveaway

Disclosure: I received a free copy of this book to facilitate my honest review. All views and opinions expressed are my own. icefairy's Treasure Chest is not responsible for winner selection or prize fulfillment.