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An abbreviated version of the classic story of the ten-year-old orphan who goes to live in a lonely house on the Yorkshire moors where she discovers an invalid cousin and the mysteries of a locked garden.

After helping her mother weed, water, and chase the rabbits from their garden, a young girl imagines her dream garden complete with jellybean bushes, chocolate rabbits, and tomatoes the size of beach balls.

Twenty-four snappy poems revolve around the growing season. All are short; most are no more than four lines. Some are punny̜Would You Carrot All to Dance? Others are riddles, such as A Riddle Picnic. Papa ate the root/and tossed the leaves./Mama ate the leaves/and said 'Mines best!/Brother ate the stem/and found no seeds./Sister ate the seeds/and tossed the rest.

Simple text reveals the anticipation of a boy who, having planted seeds while everything around is brown, fears that something has gone wrong until, at last, the world turns green.

"Up in the garden, the world is full of green--leaves and sprouts, growing vegetables, ripening fruit. But down in the dirt there is a busy world of earthworms digging, snakes hunting, skunks burrowing, and all the other animals that make a garden their home. In this exuberant book, discover the wonder and activity that lie hidden between the stalks, under the shade of leaves . . . and down in the dirt."--

Floridus Bloom builds a high wall to keep the feared monsters of Gloom out of his light-filled garden, but one day he gets a visitor that changes everything.

Feature adaptation of Beatrix Potter's classic tale of a rebellious rabbit trying to sneak into a farmer's vegetable garden.

After a tragic accident claims the life of her husband and one of her adopted daughters, Mary jane Cranford-bewkes reluctantly moves in with her ailing father. A bigoted and ill-tempered man, he had removed Mary from his will years before when she adopted two latino girls, and he is cruel to the granddaughter now living in his home.

The Aldens are helping the owner of a local restaurant grow delicious food in a garden. They work hard to water and weed and take care of the fruits and vegetables that are growing. But soon the children notice the strangest thing--the plants are moving. The tomato plants aren't in the same spot they were planted in How could that be happening? Then, when fruits and vegetables start to vanish from the garden, it's clear that a brand new mystery is...

As a Father's Day gift to the twins' Dad, Bradley, Brian, and their cousins Lucy and Nate try to identify and stop whatever creature is biting fruits and vegetables in the garden.