We Are the Gardener

Review Title: Joy of Family Gardening (review of We Are the Gardeners by Joanna Gaines and Kids) Reviewer: Janice S. Garey ***** 5 Stars This beautifully illustrated and delightfully told story of a family going through the ups and downs of learning to garden will inspire people of all ages to engage with plants. The family starts small scale with a potted fern from which they learn through failure to keep going on toward success by never giving up. Many life lessons are embedded in the story as the family pursues a beautiful and fruitful garden. Most people are familiar with the Gaines family from their Fixer Upper show. This book will be successful based on that platform alone, but the book has so much more to offer than just pure celebrity appeal. With my background as a homeschool and church preschool teacher, I can envision using this book as a starting point for many learning projects that expand upon the book contents, in both the physical and spiritual realms. Life lessons abound within the story put to words. The illustrations help with teaching preschoolers the names of veggies and flowers, colors, quantities, and a variety of ways the young can help in the garden. Children who are readers can enjoy the book at their learning level as they plan and anticipate good results from their efforts through multiple step processes. They will be thrilled with their own successfully planned and nurtured garden. I think the book could even be used in a nursing home/assisted living setting where there is a community garden in which family members help loved ones participate in growing flowers. I received a free ebook copy through NetGalley in exchange for reading and posting a review of the book. I am under no obligation to give a good review. I have since purchased a hard copy of this beautiful book for a friend. I think people at all levels and stages will benefit from this book's informative content and life lessons.

Wry good quality book for kids

Love this book, it is beautifully illustrated and the story is impotent and meaningful. I will say that it is long, would say that it’s more fitter for older children (5+), but the illustrations are fun for all ages!

Our two young grandchildren love to play in the yard and we have dabbled at gardening the last 2 summers. We decided it would be fun to get them a set of their own gardening tools and a few books about gardening and how plants grow etc… We feel it’s important to teach them the science and how nature works in regards to gardening so we bought this book as well as the children’s book, Just Call Me Honey. We wanted them to learn about how bees are vital to gardening and we wanted them to not be fearful of the critters and bugs that could be in the garden. The book lays out the reality of gardening and how sometimes it doesn’t go as planned but it’s so worth the effort to keep at it! These two books are fabulous at introducing these concepts! Our grandchildren have read the books, they tell everyone about the plants, pollinators, the ups and downs of gardening etc… We have planted flowers that attract the bees and we have planted many vegetables too. They also have a few house plants that we propagated from some of mine and they’re in their house just like the original plant that Chip bought for Joanna. Lol, they have learned to not water the plant to death like the poor plant in the book! I highly recommend this book!

Beautiful book!

What a cute story and book. My family will enjoy it for a while.

It's a nice story. I gave it to a young girl who lives on a small farm. Her Mom is a gardener. It may not have the same impact for this little girl that I was hoping for.

I love that it teaches about hard work, persevering through failure, and that good things often take time. Beautiful pictures, high-quality bound hardcover book.

livre très beau, me rappel les émissions déco qu'ils faisaient

Good book for a young person, on growing plants, fruit & vegetables. Thank you.

This book is stunning and a real treasure. My daughter and I spend a lot of time in our garden and I always tell her “we are Gardeners” so I knew I wanted this book as soon as I saw it. Everything about this book is wonderful, from the bounding to the content and illustrations. It is one we will treasure for a long time. Gardening is something that connects us together and I hope it will provide lots of memories to treasure. This book supports this family bonding while nurturing a garden together. There’s a lot of lessons throughout the book. The main one being not to give up if things don’t work but to embrace it and learn from the mistakes. It really does bring alive the excitement and magic of gardening. It also explores the wonder that is grown from one tiny seed and what creatures are the hero’s and villains in a garden. The passion of the author and her family really shows through the enchanting illustrations and pace of the book. My daughter and I echo this passion and I hope, like the authors family, it continues as she grows too. It would make a very special present for any gardener young or old. It will be a real pleasure to read it again and again and share dreams and memories of our own garden.

Bezauberndes Buch für Groß und Klein! Fantastisch illustriert - macht Laune auf Gärtnern!

In our homeschool library and a new staple through those gardening months. My son and I sit by our garden often and he loves to find all of the plants we have in our garden when he finds them in the book. A great moral and the graphics are completely adorable. I sampled the book when I found a video on Instagram of Joanne reading the book aloud. My son watched and listened. I knew he would love it.