Books: For Little Gardeners

Follow Buzz the honeybee on an unforgettable journey, discovering all the secrets of this animated and buzzing world…

Buzz! Did you know that bees love to dance? Or that they have an incredible sense of smell? Discover stories of bees from all over the world, learn how they are born, how they build their nests, and why they are so important to us all.

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Author: Butterfield, Moira
Preface by: Benoît Thévard
Edition: Broquet - Canadian book
Non-fiction children's book
Publication date: April 12, 2022 (Canada)
Hardcover
Language: French
Pages: 48
ISBN: 9782896547043

Here is an invitation to discover the joys of gardening: nothing is more wonderful than seeing the vegetables and flowers that you yourself have planted grow!

Prepare your family vegetable garden! Create unforgettable memories together, hands in the soil! The Family Vegetable Garden Notebook is a perfect introduction to local and sustainable agriculture. It allows you to transform your vegetable garden into a shared, enriching, rewarding, and fun project for children. Involve children at every stage, from ideation to harvest, by giving them a notebook where they can write, draw, and/or paste the information needed to plan, create, and maintain the vegetable garden.

The family vegetable garden is a source of pride for all families, and above all, an annual tradition for many of us. Even if we do it year after year, it's not uncommon to forget what we tried and accomplished in previous summers. Our family garden journal will be the perfect project to collect all our notes about the garden, track its progress throughout the season, and then remember our successes—and the little mistakes—for the following summer!

The different sections of our gardening journal are:

Our vegetable garden | Our team | Our wishes | Our seedlings | Our friends | Our great plan | Let's get to work! | The weather station | The harvest calendar | Story of (x14 for your different plants) | Our colors | Our recipes | Our memories

The gardening journal will surely be a beautiful keepsake of all the wonderful moments you will spend as a family working together for a great harvest!

Printed in Quebec (Sorel-Tracy)

Illustrations: Aurélie Grand

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Materials : 35 pages // Thick kraft cardboard cover and recycled paper inner sheets.
Dimensions : Height: 11 inches, Width: 8.5 inches

Notebook in French

The garden is full of life, it's up to you to learn how to take care of it!

By browsing through the guide, you will discover a wealth of exciting information about plants as well as tips for becoming an excellent gardener.

Content :

• 1 guide to learning how to garden
• 1 trowel
• 1 hoe
• 15 descriptive maps

Age: 5 years and older.

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Author: Julie Boudreau
Edition: Little Geniuses - Canadian book
Type: Softcover book box set
Pages: 32
Publication date: April 15, 2025
ISBN: 9782898531743
Language: French

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My beautiful vegetable garden , an album for budding gardeners, will guide young and old alike in planting fruits and vegetables in their garden.

In rhyme and poetry, Anne-Marie Fortin offers us a simple agricultural calendar. Sowing, trellising, roots, perennials, harvesting, picking, and composting—she explains it all!

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Author: Anne-Marie Fortin
Illustrator: Julien Castanié
Publisher: Isatis (Of the)
Pages: 24
Publication date: November 2019
Children's books
ISBN: 9782924769805

This collection of five books addresses current environmental issues. Its educational tone raises awareness among young readers about the role they can play in protecting the environment. After reading, children can explore the topics further if they wish. This collection is sure to appeal to young scientific minds!

Ecosystems are amazing places, but their balance is fragile. A simple change in the ecosystem can disrupt the lives of everyone who lives there. Jade and her older sister travel along waterways, through forests, and across mountains to admire the beauty of the ecosystems around them. Follow them on their discoveries!

Green Turn Collection

This collection of five books addresses current environmental issues. Its educational tone raises awareness among young readers about the role they can play in protecting the environment. After reading, children can explore the topics further if they wish. This collection is sure to appeal to young scientific minds!

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Author: Collective
Publisher: L'Envolée
Collection: Green Turn
Publication date: 2020-01-14
Size: 25.0 cm x 27.5 cm
Pages: 16
Binding: Softcover
ISBN: 9782894886632
Language: French

When Mia realizes the importance of her work as a bee…

When she discovers the magic of nature's cycles…

She is filled with pride! She is a valuable partner of

The vast world of sustainable agriculture!

Author: Madeleine Lacourse-Désilets
Publisher: La Roupille
Publication date: Spring 2022
Pages: 32 color pages / 14 illustrations
Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9782924304-48-8

The garden is a fabulous world where many small creatures live, which this book will help you to know better.

To make them feel at home, build shelters where they can settle. Have fun observing them. You'll look at earthworms differently, you won't be afraid of earwigs anymore, and you'll always be amazed by butterflies!

You could also attract these beautiful butterflies with the seed box; Friend of butterflies !

A book full of activities!

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Author: Boudassou, Bénédicte
Publisher: Rustica
Publication date: March 2020
Pages: 64
ISBN: 9782815316156

Divided into two parts – the theory side and the practice side – this guide offers a wealth of advice on horticulture and pedagogy, as well as management and planning. Richly illustrated, it will appeal to school staff, early childhood educators, community organizers, and parents alike, regardless of the available garden space. Brilliantly demonstrating the many benefits of gardening in schools, this essential work, inspired by Jean-Martin Fortier's *The Market Gardener *, is undoubtedly part of this ongoing agricultural revolution.

Preface by Éric Duchemin

What if changing our relationship with food started at a young age, at school, with our hands in the soil? Karine Lévesque firmly believes that educational gardening can help us address some of the challenges associated with education, the environment, and agriculture. A teacher of 15- to 21-year-olds in Montreal, she developed an innovative educational garden project with her students, which is now inspiring many schools and demonstrating the importance of building bridges between schools and the community.

Hoping to equip teachers who wish to embark on such an adventure, the author gathers here all the relevant information to start an educational garden and ensure its success. What to grow, when to start sowing, and what to do with the harvest? How to prepare the plot? Should you grow in the ground or in containers? What educational objectives can be achieved? What resources are available to help? How to develop connections with the community? How to lead a field trip? How to combine gardening with the requirements of various training programs? How to manage your time according to the school calendar? Karine Lévesque generously answers all these questions.

Divided into two parts – the theory side and the practice side – this guide offers a wealth of advice on horticulture and pedagogy, as well as management and planning. Richly illustrated, it will appeal to school staff, early childhood educators, community organizers, and parents alike, regardless of the available garden space. Brilliantly demonstrating the many benefits of gardening in schools, this essential work, inspired by Jean-Martin Fortier's *The Market Gardener *, is undoubtedly part of this ongoing agricultural revolution.

“The educational garden movement is certainly still in its infancy, but it is growing rapidly. And the book you hold in your hands will be one of the catalysts for it in the coming years. […] Drawing on her experience as a teacher, but also as the founder of the educational garden Les Jardins des Patriotes, Karine Lévesque generously shares the knowledge she has gained in the field and through the training she provides.”

Author: Karine Lévesque
Publication date: September 2018
Publisher: Ecosociété
Pages: 252 pages
Subject: Gardening and vegetable garden
ISBN: 9782897194505

The Ben's Adventures collection accompanies your children through easy, educational, and fascinating reading. Here is a book about gardening.

The Ben's Entrepreneurship collection introduces your children to entrepreneurial values: creativity, independence, a sense of responsibility, leadership, and solidarity. These lively and easy-to-read stories for 6- to 8-year-olds feature clear identification of complex sounds, simple vocabulary, and explicit illustrations. The Ben's Entrepreneurship collection guides your children through an easy, educational, and captivating reading experience.

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Authors: Julia Gagnon, Danielle Tremblay
Publication date: October 2013
Publisher: SAM Edition
Subject: Children's Literature
ISBN: 99782891446341