Overview
Remember making clover chains, maple seed spectacles, hollyhock dolls, and firefly lanterns? Or growing a teepee of runner beans or morning glories, or checking the clock when the Four O'Clocks bloomed? These simple pleasures, and hundreds more, are gathered together as reminiscences, stories, poems, garden plans, and special projects in Sunflower Houses, illustrated throughout with the author's charming watercolors. "Once you care about gardens, birds, bugs, and flowers," says author Sharon Lovejoy, "you will never have a boring day. Even the tiniest experience can seem like a miracle."A book for parents or grandparents or grownup friends to share with children - or to read alone for the special memories it invokes - Sunflower Houses ensures that the simplest and best outdoor experiences of childhood will be passed on to yet another generation.
Synopsis
A magical book of adventures and appreciations written and illustrated by the author of Roots, Shoots, Buckets & Boots this award-winning title was published by a small press in Colorado in 1991. The reviews say it all: A fetching primer on gardening for children. . . . Irresistible (The Smithsonian). What child, or indeed adult, would not be delighted? Lovejoy's recollections are wonderful, as are the illustrations (Victoria).Celebrating the lore of the garden and the joy of interacting with nature, Sunflower Houses is a unique garden lover's miscellany, a collection of memories, poems, activities, garden plans, crafts, botanical riddles, stories, games, and planting projects. There are inspirations for a Floral Clock Garden, A Child's Own Rainbow, Faerie Tea Parties, and, of course, the Sunflower House. Plus, from garden lovers, stories of favorite flowers. Throughout are the artist's warm and appealing watercolors of a life in gardening remembered.