Books for Kids in the Garden


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	Creating a family friendly garden Small Family Gardens: The step-by-step guide to creating stylish modern spaces by Caroline Titson Features 14 gardens from tiny to 'normal' sized back gardens. The book is very strong on design features and information on such items as dividing up garden and options about grass and decking.
	Family Gardens How to create magical outdoor spaces for all ages by Bunny Guinness Very practical and well thought out book with a large number of projects and designs of different types of gardens in a user friendly format. Good sections on different types of plants. Make sure you buy the new 2008 edition.
	Modern Family Gardens by Caroline Titson Features over 25 garden designs from small to extra large back gardens
	Great Gardens for Kids by Clare Matthews Over 30 small garden projects to entertain, educate and delight your children in the garden.
	Cassell’s Directory Plants for Family Gardens by Lucy Huntington Covering over 250 plants for family gardens with some general articles. Prefect if you want to replant you garden. The oldest of the books featured, but then plants rarely become out of date
	Money Saving Tip The Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) main Libraries in London and Wisley stock all of the above books. If you are a member of the RHS then membership of their library is free and books can be ordered from any RHS garden.
	Stories to encourage your child into the garden
	Eddies Garden and How to Make Things Grow by Sarah Garland A lovely story that may well inspire your child to get out digging in the garden. Good on plant life cycles. You’ll love reading it as well. Notes at the back about how to grow an edible garden. Suitable from age 3+
	Jasper’s Beanstalk by Nick Butterworth and Mick Inkpen. By the same team who produce the Kipper books. Easy words about simple garden tasks and coverage of days of the week . Suitable from age 2+ and for children when they start to read.
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