{"product_id":"the-little-gardener","title":"The Little Gardener","description":"Product Description\n\n\nThe Little Gardener is an engaging illustrated guide for parents, grandparents, caregivers, and educators who want to help children explore the natural world through gardening. Part how-to, part teaching tool, and part inspiration,\nThe Little Gardener is a thoughtful combination of detailed instructions, tips, anecdotes, and seasonal activities designed to connect gardeners to natural systems. With fun projects, useful charts, and creative journal prompts, The Little Gardener shows gardeners of all ages how to envision and build their garden together by making the process an adventure to be treasured, with much to learn along the way.\n\n\nReview\n\n\n\"[Author Julie] Cerny spent 15 years as an outdoor educator, leading little ones to study ponds, hike mountains and play games that helped introduce the way natural systems work. Her background comes through on each of the 224 pages of this thoughtful book, which is very much needed in today's digital and fast-paced world....Cerny's insights into the importance of connecting with the outside world truly touched my heart. 'Gardening cultivates ecological literacy - a working knowledge of how ecological systems support all life on this planet. When we garden, it's easier to see ourselves as part of those systems and to experience firsthand how our choices affect our environment, for better or for worse.'\n - Oregonlive.com\n\n\"A 'big gardener, little gardener\" guide to an adventure that will be long remembered and with much to learn along the way to creating a garden and connecting with nature.\"\n - Ozaukee Press,\n\n\n\"An engaging illustrated guide for parents, grandparents and caregivers who want to help children explore the natural world through gardening. Part howto, part teaching tool, and part inspiration, The Little Gardener is a thoughtful combination of detailed instructions, tips, anecdotes, and seasonal activities designed to connect gardeners to natural systems. With fun projects, useful charts, and creative journal prompts, The Little Gardener shows gardeners of all ages how to envision and build their garden together by making the process an adventure to be treasured, with much to learn along the way.\"\n - The Green Parent (UK)\n\n\"Part how-to, part teaching tool, and part inspiration, The Little Gardener is a thoughtful combination of detailed instructions, tips, anecdotes, and seasonal activities designed to connect gardeners to natural systems. With fun projects, useful charts, and creative journal prompts, The Little Gardener shows...the process an adventure to be treasured, with much to learn along the way.\"\n - The Green Parent (UK)\n\n\"The Little Gardener is offered up by an author deeply at home in nature, the book acting as her outstretched hand beckoning caregivers and their little ones to join her with joy and abandon....[It] is the perfect companion for parents, educators and caregivers who wish to immerse the children in their lives in nature and vine-ripened produce but find themselves daunted by the journey from tiny seed to big, juicy tomato.\"\n - The Maine Organic Farmer Gardener,\n\n\n\n\"This wonderful book is perfect for parents and their children to learn how to create a thriving garden. It includes everything you need to know such as finding the right spot, what time to plant and when it will be harvested, what tools you need and information on how to water and tend the garden.\"\n - Albany (N.Y.) Times Union\n\nThe Little Gardener by Julie A. Cerny isn't aimed primarily at children but at the adults who look after them and want to involve them in the joys of gardening. Parents, teachers and others are certain to find inspiration from the varied ideas and projects.\n - The Morning Star (UK)\n\n\"[Julie Cerny] clearly lays out how to design, plant and tend a garden with a child. She offers activities and examples that are infinitely helpful in guiding the young gardener-because it's one thing to know how to garden, but a different thing entirely to try to ex","brand":"Princeton Architectural Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39663354576981,"sku":"9781616898601N","price":11.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2481\/5790\/products\/493f5260-15e8-4d74-8faa-ba0c60cfb609.jpg?v=1644292826","url":"https:\/\/smeikalbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-little-gardener","provider":"smeikalbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}