Henkes, K. (2014). My garden. New York: McGraw-Hill Education.
This book is most appropriate for preschoolers. In this book we are introduced to a young girl who constantly helps her mother with her garden. However, the girl starts to imagine what she would want in her own garden. Her imagination runs wild and she comes up with ideas such as she would grow old keys, seashells, and jelly bean bushes. In the end her imagination truly takes root when she plants a seashell and it starts to take root just like she imagined.

This book you get to see what a young girl would like if she got to plant her own garden. ( )

The little girl in the book helps her mother in the garden and imagines what her own garden would look like. She thinks of chocolate bunnies and seashell flowers. This story can inspire children to use their imaginations to make their dreams possible. ( )

The girl in this book grows chocolate rabbits, tomatoes as big as beach balls, flowers that change color, and seashells in her garden. How does your garden grow?

Kevin Henkes does a beautiful job of showing the reader the mind of a child. In this book we see innocence, imagination and wonder. I've noticed that Henkes likes nature and flowers and uses those things frequently in his books. With his illustrations in this book, we see his use of pastels, line, and texture. I enjoyed this book because it puts you back into the mind of a child where anything is possible (like growing seashells in a garden). ( )