To keep from being eaten, an inchworm measures a robin's tail, a flamingo's neck, a toucan's beak, a heron's legs, and a nightingale's song.

A father and child grow vegetables and then make them into a soup.

Everyone tells a small boy that the carrot seed he has planted will never grow, but his patience is rewarded.

While planting seeds in their garden, two animals learn the value of kindness.

Liam discovers a hidden garden and with careful tending spreads color throughout the gray city.

After planting the garden he has dreamed of for years, Mr. McGreely tries to find a way to keep some persistent bunnies from eating all his vegetables.

Simple text reveals the anticipation of a boy who, having planted seeds while everything around is brown, fears that something has gone wrong until, at last, the world turns green.

Messy Bessey discovers that with proper care her garden will flourish.

"A classroom guinea pig learns about gardening by growing his own pumpkin"-- Provided by publisher.

Every year the fourth grade has to do a plan and complete a service project for the school and community, and after a particularly unappetizing school lunch Finley suggests that they should plant a vegetable garden--but when the radishes she and her friends Henry and Olivia plant take too long to sprout she gets very frustrated.