A Child’s Garden: 60 Ideas to Make Any Garden Come Alive for Children
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Amazon. com ReviewA Child's Garden is an excellent guide for parents wishing to create natural spaces in the garden where their children can openly play and explore. Stepping beyond the traditional ideas of building a treehouse or planting a vegetable garden, the authors include 60 unique ways to tailor a landscape to nurture a child's sense of enchantment and wonder. For instance, many children like to hide, and the book includes ideas for building natural caves out of woven willow branches, climbing vines, or weeping shrubs. For parents wanting to plant a good tree for climbing, this guide knowledgeably recommends the fast-growing and sturdy Norway maple as one of the best. It's filled with such information throughout its nine sections on water, creatures, refuges, dirt, heights, movement, make-believe, nurturing, and learning. Messages on safety are wisely included, along with an excellent list of resources covering everything from buying butterfly houses to visiting selected children's gardens. Through its many color photographs and warm, wise text, A Child's Garden will draw parents into their children's timeless, carefree world and perhaps back to a time when they themselves explored streams, played in the sand, studied bugs, and roamed without agenda. --Karen Karleski
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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"[Dannenmaier] presents 60 vibrant and inspired landscape plans and innovative weekend projects designed to help motivated parents create imaginary havens that will appeal to both young ones and those who are young at heart. " Carol Haggas, Booklist (Booklist )"[Dannenmaier] presents 60 vibrant and inspired landscape plans and innovative weekend projects designed to help motivated parents create imaginary havens that will appeal to both young ones and those who are young at heart. " Carol Haggas, Booklist (Booklist )"[Dannenmaier believes that a garden made for children will engage adults too, because it will be full of secret hideaways and sensory delights. " —House and Garden (House and Garden )[Dannenmaier believes that a garden made for children will engage adults too, because it will be full of secret hideaways and sensory delights. House and Garden (House and Garden )
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This review is from: A Childs Garden: Enchanting Outdoor Spaces for Children and Parents (Hardcover)
Every page of this book has full color photos from some of the most incredible gardens for children I have ever seen, from the large elaborate planned spaces of botanical gardens, to small modest spaces that will fit any space or budget. While this is not a heavy-duty “how to” book, it is a book of ideas–and we all know that ideas lead to other ideas! The cover of this book alone is inspiring! The author asks, “How important are the old childhood pleasures of collecting seed pods, fishing in ditches, making bowers, picking flowers, and climbing trees?. . . long hours of unstructured outdoor exploration are a fast-vanishing aspect of contemporary childhood. ” She continues, “. . . the environment [on her uncle's farm] was so complex–full of smells, varied land forms, and mesmerizing creatures. I remember a scooped out pond surrounded by mud in which pigs, geese and ducks joyously wallowed. The strange pungency of the air, the frighteningly gigantic hogs, the mysterious, billowy grasses. . . still fill my senses. ” The author talks at great length about the psychology of nature, and of German educational reforms of the early 20th century (but only the good ones <G>). Each page has a line fron a Robert Louis Stevenson poem, for “. . . you may see, if you will look Through the windows of this book, Another child far away, And in another garden play. “The book includes suggestions for water gardens, sensory gardens, vegetable gardens, themed gardens, natural sand boxes, mazes, and attracting wildlife, plus many resources for strange seeds, odd plants, and landscape designers in varied areas of the US and the UK, all geared towards making a child’s space a natural one. BTW, when I bought the book, my kids grabbed it from me immediately. They love to look at the gardens and plan ours. Oh, and there are two black and whilte photos in the book: One is of children during WWI, tending a large city garden; the other is a 1940’s style playground, with the steel and concrete structures that many of us recall from childhood. My 4yo playground-lover looked at both, and declared that he’d rather explore the garden.