Growing Good Kids Classics

A seed is desperate to find a place to grow in this tale with a powerful message.

Despite everyone’s dire predictions, a little boy has faith in the carrot seed he plants.

A Suquamish Indian chief describes his people’s respect and love for the earth, and concern for its destruction.

Despite the derision of their neighbors, a young French boy and his family befriend the lonely painter who comes to their town and begin to admire his unusual paintings.

By camouflaging herself, Clara Caterpillar, who becomes a cream-colored butterfly, courageously saves Catisha the crimson-colored butterfly from a hungry crow.

When Ping admits that he is the only child in China unable to grow a flower from the seeds distributed by the Emperor, he is rewarded for his honesty.

Squirrel teaches Little Groundhog how to plant and tend a vegetable garden.

A fussy eater decides to sample the carrots after her brother convinces her that they are really orange twiglets from Jupiter.

Inch by inch, row by row, a child grows a garden with the help of the rain and the earth. Based on a popular folksong.

A young girl in Maine and her grandmother in California exchange letters and packages which reflect cycles of planting and harvesting in their different climates.

As a child Great-aunt Alice Rumphius resolved that when she grew up she would go to faraway places, live by the sea in her old age, and do something to make the world more beautiful–and she does all those things, the last being the most difficult of all.

With her sure, loving, gardener’s touch, Mrs. Spitzer nurtures the students in her classroom each year.

While visiting his grandfather, who has a wonderful garden, Oliver learns to eat vegetables other than potatoes.

An old stump attracts many living creatures, even man, and when it is gone, a new tree attracts the same creatures, who need it for a variety of reasons.

In a series of letters a boy, his science teacher, and his parents discuss the progress of a very unusual, sometimes frightening, plant that becomes more human as the summer progresses.

A man harvests and sells a bountiful crop of pumpkins so that he will be able to preserve the field from developers.

A young boy creates a summer playhouse by planting sunflowers and saves the seeds to make another house the next year.

Sal, a very big girl, cannot sew a quilt like Gran’s no matter how hard she tries, but eventually she finds that her talents lie elsewhere.

A series of letters relating what happens when, after her father loses his job, Lydia Grace goes to live with her Uncle Jim in the city but takes her love for gardening with her.

The story of young elegant girl and her wandering around the world through the pages of a book about found in her father’s library..

A young boy grows to manhood and old age experiencing the love and generosity of a tree which gives to him without thought of return.

The many different animals that live in a great kapok tree in the Brazilian rainforest try to convince a man with an ax of the importance of not cutting down their home.

When an old woman gets sick and her garden begins to die, the doodle bugs call on the Leaf Men to make things right again.

The Once-ler describes the results of the local pollution problem.

A story of hope and epiphany and the importance of family heritage. A young Vietnamese girl takes a lotus seed from the Imperial Garden. Years later, her grandson plants it in his garden–where it blooms again

Ten-year-old Mary comes to live in a lonely house on the Yorkshire moors and discovers an invalid cousin and the mysteries of a locked garden.

Kamanya believes in the shaman’s wisdom about the healing properties of plants found in the Amazon rain forest and hopes one day to be a healer for his people.

Peter disobeys his mother by going into Mr. McGregor’s garden and almost gets caught.

An old man’s persistent dreams transform an old junkyard into a beautiful forest full of life.