\n Enticing and eco-friendly.\n <\/p>\n
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Why and how to make a rain garden.<\/p>\n
Having watched through their classroom window as a \u201crooftop-rushing, gutter-gushing\u201d downpour sloppily flooded their streets and playground, several racially diverse young children follow their tan-skinned teacher outside to lay out a shallow drainage ditch beneath their school\u2019s downspout, which leads to a patch of ground, where they plant flowers (\u201cnative ones with tough, thick roots,\u201d Schaub specifies) to absorb the \u201cmucky runoff\u201d and, in time, draw butterflies and other wildlife. The author follows up her lilting rhyme with more detailed explanations of a rain garden\u2019s function and construction, including a chart to help determine how deep to make the rain garden and a properly cautionary note about locating a site\u2019s buried utility lines before starting to dig; she concludes with a set of leads to online information sources. G\u00f3mez goes more for visual appeal than realism. In her scenes, a group of smiling, round-headed, very small children in rain gear industriously lay large stones along a winding border with little apparent effort; nevertheless, her images of the little ones planting generic flowers that are tall and lush just a page turn later do make the outdoorsy project look like fun.<\/p>\n
Enticing and eco-friendly.<\/p>\n
(Picture book. 5-7)<\/i><\/p><\/div>\n\n
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Pub Date:<\/b> March 12, 2024<\/p>\n
ISBN:<\/b> 9781324052357<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n
Page Count:<\/b> 32<\/p>\n
Publisher:<\/b> Norton Young Readers<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n
Review Posted Online:<\/b> Feb. 17, 2024<\/p>\n
Kirkus Reviews Issue:<\/b> March 15, 2024<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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