How Does My Garden Grow?

Muller's book features beautiful, detailed, and accurate pictures of common and not so common garden plants, tools, and activities. My almost 5 year old little gardener loves it, both for the simple story and all the additional details about plants and how we care for them, although I think the target audience is probably a little older, maybe 5-10 year olds. The story is very simple, a little girl who lives in a big city visits her rural grandparents for the summer. Grandpa teaches her all about gardening and she interacts with neighbors and friends in the garden. She returns for a visit in the fall/winter and notices the seasonal changes to the garden.Like all of Gerta Muller's books I've read, this one incorporates pictures of characters of different races, ages and abilities even without diversity being a central theme of the story.It is written/translated in British/European English, so there are just a few words or terms that aren't exactly equivalent to North American terms. For example, what I would call "beets" are labelled "beetroot", and there's a few tools that are mentioned that are less common or go by a different name in North America. This is not in the least problematic in understanding the book, and has in fact lead to a couple interesting conversations with my preschooler about how language is different in different places.

Love the illustrations, information is great, pleasure to read, will be pulling it back out in the spring for sure

We love Gerda Muller! Her books and illustrations are darling, I am collecting all of them for our home library. My favorite garden one is A Year in our Garden but this one was sweet as well.

I cannot recommend this book highly enough. Our nine year old wants to start a vegetable garden and got this book for her birthday. Her younger siblings (7 and 4) love it as much as she does. It has detailed illustrations and interesting information. Not a handbook for gardening, but certainly inspiring and educating.

Beautiful book that we all learned from—myself and my 5 & 3 year old. One of our favorite books!

Fantastic book! Gorgeous illustrations and so much useful information. My 1.5 year old son loves it!! We compare the veggies in the book with those that grow in our yard or that we have in the fridge. He is really into it!

I bought this for my boys for Christmas and we all really enjoy it. It's a simple story incorporating a lot of garden information. Beautiful art as expected from Gerda Muller. Also check out her Garden in the City book.

One of my family's favorite books. All of Gerda Muller's books are lovely, informative and imaginative. My boys (3 & 6) love reading them.

As usuall the author does not disappointed us with this book. Beautifully illustrated it brings knowledge and understanding about nature and the food we eat. We now have all of Gerda Muller's books and hope for a new one this year.

A lovely, gentle book with incredibly detailed drawings of vegetables and different things that might happen in the garden (a favourite is when they get stuck in the rain! for some reason the kids want to go back and back to this page!). My 3 year old son loves this, even though I bought it intending to save it till he is older.

Beautiful book with lots of useful information about gardening and growing vegetables told through a story. My four year old son loves it and is inspired have his own garden and grow vegetables and herbs like the children in the story. Would thoroughly recommend.

Beautiful book, wonderfully illustrated and rich in content. I'm sure it will stand the test of time.

Really good