Review Quotes * Winner, 2016 Growing Good Kids Book Award, Junior Master Gardener and American Horticultural Society * Whole Kids Foundation Book Club Selection Delightful. Fortunately the ever-resourceful girl comes up with the perfect plan-a garden swap! Author Katherine Pryor and artist Anna Raff the team behind Sylvias Spinach, tell the playful story of a child who discovers not only the wonder of growing food but the satisfaction of growing a community. From the Back Cover The first zucchini of a summer garden is always exciting, but what happens when the plants just keep growing.and growing.and growing? Zora soon finds herself with more zucchini than her family can bake, saut, or barbecue.

A Whole Kids Foundation Book Club selection. and Tom Watson, EcoConsumer, writes Well never make headway with the pressing environmental issues of our time - such as climate change, community-building and food waste - without brilliant, fun little books like Zoras Zucchini. Shelf Awareness, says Zoras Zucchini satisfies every appetite with its clean, happy storyline and whimsical illustrations. Fortunately the ever-resourceful girl comes up with the perfect plan-a garden swap! Author Katherine Pryor and artist Anna Raff followup with their first book, Sylvias Spinach, with this playful story of a child who discovers not only the wonder of growing food but the satisfaction of growing a community. The first zucchini of a summer garden is always exciting, but what happens when the plants just keep growing.and growing.and growing? Zora soon finds herself with more zucchini than her family can bake, saute, or barbecue. The story touches on how climate change and deforestation are impacting monarchs, and kid-friendly back matter provides additional information about the butterflies, including their life cycle, anatomy, and migratory patterns, as well as several simple ways children can help monarch butterflies themselves.Book Synopsis A YOUNG GARDENER LEARNS ABOUT SHARING FOOD AND THE REWARDS OF GROWING A COMMUNITY THROUGH FOOD. Parents and educators alike will find much to love about this poetically written book.

Brought to life with illustrations as vivid as the monarch’s iconic orange and black hues, this story invites young readers to experience the monarch’s migration from the butterflies’ point of view as they search for food, huddle together through storms, and tirelessly fly south. The migration will not be easy, but it is necessary for the next generation of monarchs to be born.

Join the monarchs as they embark on a transcontinental journey home in this moving story about migration.Īs the sun dawns in Canada, a flutter of monarch butterflies take flight, ready to begin their months-long journey to their ancestral home in Mexico.

Zora's Zucchini by Katherine Pryor