Butterflies bloom as delicately as flowers in this visually magnificent story of beginnings, middles and ends: eggs, caterpillars and finally butterflies.

An activity book gets youngsters involved in growing their own food, with helpful guidelines on how to plant seeds, harvest crops, and transform everything from lettuce and carrots to beans into more than thirty-five simple, kid-friendly dishes.

Features simple gardening projects from collecting seeds to growing a miniature desert garden.

Explains how to start your own vegetable garden and how to cope with common problems, describing the round of activities from month to month throughout the year.

An illustrated introduction to plants and how they grow with information on creating a home garden.

Covers all the basics of gardening, including everyday techniques, edible treats, craft projects, wildlife gardening, and indoor gardening.

Presents twelve gardening projects using leftover scraps from cooking, including growing celery from stubs, growing a bulb of garlic from a single clove, and growing a ginger plant from a root.

Explains how to plant seeds, harvest fruits and vegetables, determine which plant parts are edible, spot pests in the garden, and use crops to cook--from bean and bacon spaghetti to polenta chips to tomato, feta, and basil pizza.

"This wonderfully insightful and brilliantly illustrated book on gardens and gardeners will provide hours of absorbing fun while introducing young readers to the joys of planning, planting, and harvesting. In vibrant watercolors Vincent Grave shows us how there's something happening every month in the Big Garden. Renowned landscape designer Gilles Clement's lyrical text gently teaches young readers not only what's involved in planning a garden, but...