Green Kid's Guide to Garden Pest Removal

Using short declarative sentences, as well as emphatic doâÂÂs and donâÂÂts, this entry in the A Green KidâÂÂs Guide to Gardening! series encourages young gardeners to avoid using pesticides (defined as poisons that kill all bugs). To avoid killing the butterflies and bees that help in the garden, Lay provides green tips and tricks to fool the bad bugs. Soothing illustrations depict glove-wearing kids picking the bugs off by hand, adding a mixture of dishwashing soap and water to soil, and so forth. A section titled The Enemy of My Enemy advises employing the aid of birds, bats, and bugs, all of which feed upon unwanted insects. After the natural cure-alls, a projectâÂÂbuilding a frog houseâÂÂis appended. A thorough, charming guide that should send budding gardeners skipping down a greener path. Grades 3-5. --Courtney Jones

Publisher: Magic Wagon

Published: USA, 1 January 2013

Format: Hardcover, 24 pages

Other Information: Illustrated

Dimensions: 20.3 x 1.3 x 21.6 centimeters (0.45 kg)

Writer: Richard Lay