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S pring has sprung! Are you looking for a fun, rewarding activity that the whole family can enjoy during this beautiful season? How about gardening? Cultivate food, flowers, and family mem- ories all at once! Check out these books about gardening and visit one of EBRPL’s Seed Libraries to get started. Time to get growing! YOUTH This board book might bug you…but in the best way!
The Prickletrims Go Wild by Marie Dorléans
The Secret Garden on 81st Street by Ivy Noelle Weir
The Prickletrim family’s passion for exact measurements, rule following, and straight lines in their garden (and life) is challenged when their gardener quits and the garden explodes with life and wildness! How will they manage with giant plants growing through their kitchen and squirrels rampaging up the stairs? Readers will love the contrast of the gloriously vivid wild garden with the geometric black and white exactitude of the family! Mara Plants a Seed by Robert Furrow When Mara planted a sunflower seed, she didn’t know it was the beginning of a transformation of the abandoned lot in her neighborhood! From those first few sunflower seeds to a tiny trio of toddlers adding watermelon seeds from their picnic, to her elderly neighbor watering the grown flowers with the leftover water from her fish tank, this book is a delightful illustration of how small actions can help beautiful things grow!
Sneak into the Secret Garden with Mary Lennox and her friends in this modern graphic novel adaptation of the classic novel! Used to traveling with her tech-nomad parents, Mary hasn’t had a traditional life or friends. After her parents’ death, she is sent to live with her mysterious uncle in New York City. When she and her cousin discover a mysterious garden on the roof of their townhouse, will reviving it help her find her balance in this new situation?
The Flower Garden by Renée Kurilla
Hello, Garden Bugs by Julissa Mora
What would you do if you were suddenly as small as a bug? Best friends Anna and Tess are zapped down to tiny size after planting some seeds in their garden! With a charming gnome named May, they adventure through the garden, climbing flowers, bouncing on mushrooms, and even flying on birds! However, as the day wanes they face a serious choice: Will they stay small or figure out how to work together to get home? Growing food isn’t hard when you have help from these non-fiction titles!
Babies and families will adore saying hello to a variety of adorable garden bugs in this sweet and simple springtime board book. With high-contrast pictures perfect for newborns and the tiniest readers, and cute individual welcomes for each insect, this garden board book is certain to crawl right up the favorites list! These picture books may just inspire your little ones to plant some seeds and see what grows!
Kids will find garden adventures galore in these exciting graphic novels!
Book Corner is provided by librarians at the East Baton Rouge Parish Library. To learn more about the libraries in East Baton Rouge Parish, visit ebrpl.com.
12 MARCH 2026 | BRPARENTS.COM
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