The Tiny Gardeners

(Hardback)

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Join the Tiny Gardeners as they grow fruit, vegetables, flowers and herbs for the upcoming Summer Market. See the long and bumpy beans! Taste the fresh and juicy strawberries! Feel the spikey rosemary sprigs! Smell the sweetly scented honeysuckle! Everything is almost ready to pick, but it's a hot, humid day and the garden is looking dry and thirsty ... just a moment ... can you hear that

Continuing the Tiny Professions series (The Tiny Explorers and The Tiny Tailors), Kat Macleod's newest picture book, The Tiny Gardeners, navigates the process of preparing, growing and harvesting a productive garden through the five senses: sight, taste, touch, smell and sound.

This imaginative and charmingly illustrated story uses a range of verbs and adjectives to describe the process of preparing a garden bed through to harvesting. Young readers are invited to join in with the Tiny Gardeners and explore their senses as they learn how fruit, vegetables, flowers and herbs are grown. With mentions of pollination, bees, pests and the importance of water in a garden, The Tiny Gardeners will inspire a new generation of gardeners and nature enthusiasts.

Reviews

'Kat's imaginative mixed-media illustrations almost leap off the page.' * The Design Files *
Praise for The Tiny Tailors: 'A tantalising and utterly lovely picture book for ages 2+.' -- Alexa Dretzke * Readings *
Praise for The Tiny Explorers: 'A joyful, beautiful book that celebrates the natural world in all its colourful, graceful glory. Kat Macleod has truly created something special.' -- Alexa Dretzke * Readings *
1. There is a lot to love in this well-crafted title. Colourful and detailed illustrations and simple, engaging text combine for an accomplished result....A wonderful addition to any child's, or school's, library. -- Sue Osborne * Magpies Magazine *
This children's book will be a great inspiration for young kids, taking them from the creation of a food garden to care and harvesting and then to the 'summer market' to sell. It helps kids think about the many senses: the look, taste and smell of crops. The Tiny Gardeners show how to grow fruit, herbs, vegies and flowers - with enchanting illustrations. -- Steve Payne * Organic Gardener *

Author Bio

Kat Macleod is a Melbourne-based illustrator, designer and artist, with over two decades experience working on client projects, commissions, exhibitions and books. Her signature linework and collaged textures feature in everything she creates. She is endlessly inspired by nature, fashion and the drawings of her three young boys.

Kat's notable projects include: a wall mural at Readings bookstore; limited edition products for Heide Museum of Modern Art, Third Drawer Down and The Australian Ballet; and editorial illustrations for Tiffany & Co., Vogue China, Numero Tokyo and Vogue Entertaining + Travel Australia. Stepping into the children's publishing world in 2021, she wrote, illustrated and designed a set of early learner books with Thames & Hudson, which won Best Designed Children's series at the 2022 Australian Book Design Awards. Her first picture book The Tiny Explorers, also received nominations for several awards.

Her back catalogue of local and internationally released illustrated books include: Bird; The Cocktail; Sequins & Sequence; and Michi Girl books (Like I Give a Frock, What on Earth Are You Wearing and Le Shop Guide). Kat has had six exhibitions over the past decade and has a loyal following of art collectors.