My favorite books as a child were 2 large books my sister gave me for being her flower girl in her wedding. Now I cultivate my very own garden sanctuary to share with family and friends during every season of the year. , As a child I loved Nancy Drew books and still love mysteries as an adult. I remember always getting Magic Tree House books from the school library as a kid. The Jolly Postman was my favorite book as a child and I relieve the enjoyment over and over again as I see it through the eyes of my children. I loved finding the images in the Magic Eye books too. As an adult I have hidden art treasures in the gardens and around our farm. I was fascinated by the daily life of these pioneers. Ive enjoyed the same all my life! I was the kid who read the shampoo bottle and the back of the cereal box! Thank you so much for inviting us back. They need entertainment and will create their own if you dont provide anywith hilariously terrifying results. With absolute certainty I can say my favourite book of all time as a child and as an adult is Frances Hodgson Burnetts The Secret Garden. The Princess Bride, Hobbit, King Arthur, Robin Hood. Loved the inspirational interview with Zoe Fields. To this day I still look to the stories with fondness, and the image of stepping into the wardrobe captures something in my heart. June 10, 2022 by . I had the luxury of living down the street from the local library. Well 20 years later I wrote it and illustrated it and hope to have it ready to show a publisher this spring. I loved the babysitters club series! Did you enjoy seek-and-find books as a child? I loved that book as I traveled with them, crying over their losses and connecting with their hopes. Theyll clog up your arteries and make you sing. As a young child I was into poetry. Im so intrigued by this book! I was shocked to find out at 13 that Great Expectations by Charles Dickens would become one of the most formative and enjoyable books of my childhood. At first, I was reading lots of WWII fiction based on true stories and real people. The last page was a picture of children sitting with him in a beautiful garden. Wowsuch a color explosion! Probably the first book I read was the Secret Garden, but I loved the imagination behind James and the Giant Peach. Thank you for that. And any book with historical style drawings depicting flora and fauna! Ive been an avid reader my whole life. The same professor directed me to the most lyrical phrasing I know in literature: A green thought in a green shade from Renaissance poet Andrew Marvell in his marvel-lous poem The Garden. Have you made any discoveries this season that youre excited about? The book just makes you want to go out in the snow in the woods and see all the wonders. Thanks! Im definitely intrigued to venture into this artistic beauty contained in a book. Had many. Enjoying the beauty and artistry of it all. After those I enjoyed The Little House series and then Nancy Drew! I saved my allowance and bought every one as they came out. Eventually, my Dad handed me an adult book and said here, I think youll like this. I was most interested in books about horses as a child. Beautiful woods!) I loved Roald Dahl, Madeleine LEngle, Beverley Cleary, and also raiding the art and travel books in our library. I always loved reading Little House on the Prairie. They didnt. It was easy to lose myself in that world. And you fare forth in your splendor, Occasionally a splurge would be on colored pencils or chalk, and a real sketch book with sturdy paper. And I still have those two books with very tattered covers. Children of the Forest features the sweetest mushroom capped children, and in The Flowers Festival fairies heads are surrounded in flower petals. I loved books with pictures that showed how different people lived and worked, I was also always a big fan of the Richard Scary books for those reasons. I was so intrigued, as a child, by books that demonstrated any kind of art or craft! The book sounds absolutely delightful. I continue to love visual puzzles and paired with flowers is just brilliant! The 1st time she saw the canopy of apple blossom on the ride home drew me right in. Not in big ways, but I try to give back where I can, protect nature where I can, inspire growth where I can (both literally and figuratively), and take only what I need. I really want to have a beautiful collection of New Zealand-bred roses throughout the field, so Im trialing a lot of new varieties from Matthews Roses. Read the books to our children too and will pass them on to grandkids hopefully one day. I read that entire series that summer in that nook, with a view out the window into our flowery backyard. I had a book called The Secret Garden, that I was obsessed with. My favorite book as a tween was The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. I loved the old Jessie Willcox Smith illustration books. I have shared this passion with all my grandchildren. Instead of going directly, she stops and invites her rabbit friend, and they take the long way, through a meadow, past a pond and into some woods, enjoying the beauty and each other, and picking a bouquet along the way. I was an avid reader growing up and still am! I have memories of my grandpa reading this book to us over and over, while us grandchildren were clustered around the sofa peering over his shoulder. I read the classics, christian fiction (thank you to grandma for her yard sale finds), romance (thank you to grandma for leaving your books laying around your house when we visited), science fiction, regular fiction. So many hours were joyfully spent lost in those pages with Laura on her many adventures in the fledgling frontier. That story contained lots of emotions. My whole childhood I always wanted a pig of my own. She recently passed, and I am so grateful for all that I learned from her, I too have many many flowers in my gardens today and have passed this on to my children. On another note this flower book is beautiful! My favorite was A Childs Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson. I love that Zoe and her mom work together. I loved reading the national geographic series on ocean animals. Connie. Im trying to capture that feeling in my garden with flowers and beneficial insects. Zoes book is absolutely beautiful. Growing up in South Africa, our libraries at that time were filled with books by English authors. Recognizing patterns. I think I read almost all of the biographies in our school library! I loved and still do Beatrix Potter books. assistant, sign up to Chorus today. The siblings were creative, caring, and close with one another. Im sure that explains my penchant for dreaming up new adventures in travel and creativity. I know it sounds crazy but we did not have a lot of money so the flowers were inspiration. Preferably an old one where attics held treasures and secret doors and nooks abounded. Covid, LOL! beautiful book! Maybe thats also why Ive always wanted to grow flowers & create with them.. Winnie the Pooh inspired me to be persistent in what ever I do and always have fun with others doing things I enjoy! She would allow us to put our heads down and listen to her read one chapter before we went to lunch. Zoes book looks amazing and the photos are breathtaking! I loved The Phantom Tollbooth and I continue to travel in real life and in my minds eye! perspective. So today I live in an old Victorian that weve been fixing up for over ten years. Botanical gardens, floral prints, & paintings or being in woodlands, streams, or ocean, as being outside in nature is what makes me feel at my best. I came home with Misty of Chincoteague and was instantly in love. As a child, two favorites come to mind. I thick this was a birthday gift from my Dad when I was a pre-teen. What I remember most was sitting in my Moms lap. Zoes book looks to be a similar experience and has heightened my desire to visit her country. Its such a joyous, playful book and it was fun to spy some Floret seed packages woven into a few of your stunning imageswe appreciate the love! Its dreamy. When I was young, I played, I did not read. Thankyou also Erin for sharing this interview as we see the beauty of gardens from all different places . I loved reading as a child and still read a LOT! Sometimes I feel like Im from another planet. It made me appreciate all types of books! Flowers AND a similar format? It was glorious. My school library had a lot of old books (it was an older school) so the language was a bit different, more formal, and Ive found that it has largely impacted the way I speak. I cant walk away from a new book. Perhaps the idea of finding and nurturing treasures back to their full glorious beauty stuck with me. As an adult I love to walk in nature, still hoping to spot a tiny gnome house. I was a flower farmer in Vermont, retired to North Carolina, and miss it terribly! Those books sparked my passion for animal and their welfare. I guess I wanted to find myself lost in time periods and places that would challenge my way of thinking. The book was about a boy who wanted a pig. take the bad with the good. We dont raise hands because I want as many little voices repeating the rhymes and hearing them as possible. Find more near rhymes/false rhymes at B-Rhymes.com. I loved the story of pippi longstocking and always wanted to be like her: cheerful and wild, creative and independent. Growing up in a family that moved around a lot, I loved reading about families in small towns and traditions. native plants (awesome in arrangements!) I was a shy kid and just loved imaging different adventures. and whimsical illustrations- which were from the 1960s or 70s! Here's what rhymes with alexis. To help them live a long and healthy life! Im sure the books helped inspire the great love I have for all the animals I see around me. I liked reading about girls that had character. going through it cutting out pictures and creating matching and coordinated ensembles. They were allowed so much freedom and independence, and that appealed to me as a child. This led me to study all things international, love to serve with others and immerse myself in raising kids, animals and vegetation of all sorts. Revolting Rhymes by Roald Dahl, illustrated by Quentin Blake; The Twits by Roald Dahl. My 7th grade teacher read it out loud to us and then I read it myself over the years. By Chenchilla. Secret Garden was one of my all time favorites; it showed empathy and something that I now know for sure: nature does heal. Do you love food? Once I could read, I spent most of my time in fantasy books. If I wanted to enjoy the flowers that I loved so much, I needed to venture out into the neighborhood to investigate. Write more quickly and develop your skills in the process, Unique features that no other songwriting app has, Never be lost for words with suggestions from Genius, Over 500,000 rhymes and triggers, highlighting the best words for your genre, Easily collaborate with other writers in real-time, Essential if English isn't your first language. I have been creating landscape gardening for many years and I can always find an new inspiration to my designs. 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