Sharon Lovejoy
Auteur de Roots, Shoots, Buckets & Boots: Gardening Together with Children
A propos de l'auteur
Sharon Lovejoy is a contributing editor to Country Living Gardener magazine. An award-winning writer and naturalist, Ms. Lovejoy has helped design learning landscapes for young people throughout the United States, including the children's garden at the Cleveland Botanical Gardens and Salt Lake afficher plus City's Red Butte Botanical Gardens. She is a member of the National Children's and Youth Garden Advisory Panel for the American Horticultural Society afficher moins
Œuvres de Sharon Lovejoy
Sunflower Houses : Inspiration from the Garden - A Book for Children and Their Grown-Ups (1991) 264 exemplaires
Country Living Gardener A Blessing of Toads: A Gardener's Guide to Living with Nature (2004) 48 exemplaires
Hollyhock Days 1 exemplaire
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Sexe
- female
- Lieux de résidence
- California, USA
Maine, USA - Professions
- writer
illustrator
Membres
Critiques
Set in antebellum Virginia, a poor, white Southern girl encounters a girl who is a runaway slave. The two young girls dare to escape their painful lives, in this lively, moving narrative.
Profusely illustrated with photographs and watercolour sketches, this is a beautiful book. The activities are appealing and achievable, mostly requiring only simple supplies from around the house and normal life skills to complete. Also, I want to be this grandma.
The story is narrated by a 12 year old white girl who is so abused by her single father and two brothers that she doesn't even have a name. She is just "girl." When her hateful family is out hunting one day, a runaway slave about her own age show up hoping for a bite of food. "Girl" ends up running away with Zenobia, and two become fugitives together.
The entire book is the story of their running away, making a few friends, and encountering a few enemies.
The story is well told, and gives a good sensation of slavery and the time persiod, and Lark (as Zenobia names "girl") and Zenobia are sympathetic, likable characters. I would have liked a little more in the way of plot development.… (plus d'informations)
The entire book is the story of their running away, making a few friends, and encountering a few enemies.
The story is well told, and gives a good sensation of slavery and the time persiod, and Lark (as Zenobia names "girl") and Zenobia are sympathetic, likable characters. I would have liked a little more in the way of plot development.… (plus d'informations)
Listes
Must-Read Maine (1)
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 17
- Membres
- 1,373
- Popularité
- #18,736
- Évaluation
- 4.2
- Critiques
- 19
- ISBN
- 31
It delivers all kinds of inspiration for healthy, "lazy" gardening without harmful chemicals.
Illustrations are colorful and inviting,
with fun tales about Birds, Bees, Butterflies, Dragonflies, Snakes,
Flies, Wasps, Ladybugs, Worms, Spiders, Owls, Squirrels, and Skunks!
A BLESSING OF TOADS would have rated the full 5 Stars except for the depressing "scientific" details & statistics.