My Garden

Name: My Garden
Author: Shannon David

by Shannon David

Ages 3–76 min readLearn About the WorldFree to read

Join a young girl as she spends time in her beautiful garden, full of flowers, butterflies, and bumblebees.

A child walks you flower by flower through a sunlit garden, naming each shy butterfly and busy bee as a friend — a gentle invitation to slow down and notice the tiny life all around us.

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Questions to talk about together

Which flower in the garden would you most want to smell — the sweet jasmine or the purple velvet flower?
The butterfly and bee are shy but still friends — how can you tell when someone wants to be your friend?
Which buzzing visitor would you like to follow around the garden?

My Garden

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