After gathering lost seeds during the summer, a kind woman tends and instructs them throughout the fall and winter before sending them out in the spring to find roots of their own.

Brief text and illustrations tell the story of a boy, a rabbit, and a seed.

After traveling the world in her fantastic teapot, Rose is ready to put down roots. She sets about planting flower seeds in a neglected corner of a bustling city. And then she waits--through rain and cold and snow. Rose waits, never doubting that the garden she envisions will one day come to be.

When Gracie brings her grandmother a present of a tiny seed in a little pot, the two let their imaginations run wild as to the crazy things that may emerge as the seed grows.

On her very first day of school, Sophie is reluctant to make friends with the other children, preferring to play with two squash she grew in her garden--but when a particularly persistent boy named Steven gives her a packet of seeds as an apology for accidentally ripping her picture, she realizes that it just takes time to grow a friend.

Eve gave up her belief in stories and magic after her mother's death, but a mysterious seed given her as an eleventh-birthday gift by someone she has never met takes her and a boy who claims to be a ghost on a strange journey, to where their supposedly cursed town of Beaumont, New York, flourishes.

"Plant a seed to watch it grow. Press on the cloud to make it rain. Jiggle the book to scatter the seeds. Interactive text teaches very young children how flowers sprout and mature. Contains watercolor depictions of a flower in various stages of growth"--

Érase una vez un jardín. Es un jardín normal y corriente, con flores, plantas y habitantes que viven en él todo el año. Una mañana, sin previo aviso, una semilla cae del cielo y aterriza en el suelo, perturbando la vida tranquila de los pequeños habitantes del jardín. A lo largo de las páginas, observa la evolución de una semilla que germina, y descubre la ajetreada vida de los habitantes del jardín. La generosidad y el apoyo mutuo subyacen...

"In this middle-grade novel, thirteen-year-old Chloë learns about her family's history while helping her grandfather in his garden."--

A wonderful cycle of giving begins when a single seed is planted and the sprouts are passed along from one person to the next. An entire community is touched. Includes vocabulary.