Copyright Date:
2024
Edition Date:
2024
Release Date:
07/02/24
Pages:
1 volume (unpaged)
ISBN:
1-339-02327-X
ISBN 13:
978-1-339-02327-4
Dewey:
E
LCCN:
2023038920
Dimensions:
29 cm.
Language:
English
Reviews:
Kirkus Reviews
A girl plants a fantastical idea.Millie Fleur La Fae and her mom move to Garden Glen, where all the houses are "flawless" and identical-except theirs. Located on the edge of town, it's run-down and scruffy. Millie Fleur loves it, but something's missing. Fortunately, Mom brought seeds from Millie Fleur's old garden, which Millie Fleur plants immediately. They grow quickly, wildly, and weirdly, bearing names like Fanged Fairy Moss and Sore Toothwort. Garden Glen's Rosebud Club members are displeased; the club's president dubs them "poisonous." They're not, but, as Mom explains, "Some people are scared of things that are different." Millie Fleur loves her "wild, weird little garden" and invites her classmates to see it. Everyone visits the garden, including the teacher. All concur: Millie Fleur's garden is "wonderfully weird." Eventually, thanks to Garden Glen's Youth Plant and Seed Swap, bits of her garden work their way into other town gardens; soon, they're no longer identical, making Garden Glen "a truly one-of-a-kind place." This charming, low-key tale celebrates those who unabashedly find unconventional things exciting and reassures readers that it's OK to have off-the-beaten-track interests. The digital illustrations brim with fun; readers will be amused by the plants' bizarre appearances and names. Millie Fleur (who's reminiscent of Wednesday Addams) and her mom are pale-skinned; background characters are racially diverse.No poison here; just a garden of delights about someone who improves things in a unique fashion. (note about snapdragons and spider plants, author's note) (Picture book. 5-8)
*A great book for holiday gifting, and one of the best picture books of 2024!
*An instant New York Times and Indie Bestseller!
Wednesday Addams meets The Curious Garden in this delightfully peculiar story. Millie Fleur's Poison Garden is a reminder to embrace everything that makes us wonderfully weird.
Garden Glen is a very bland place. Every house and every garden looks exactly like the other. That is until Millie Fleur La Fae comes to town.
Up on a scruffy hill, beside a ramschackle house, Millie Fleur plants her marvelously strange garden, filled with Sneezing Stickyweed, Fanged Fairymoss, and Grumpy Gilliflower. Millie Fleur finds it enchanting, but the townspeople of Garden Glen call it poison!
But Millie Fleur is proud of her beloved little garden. So if some townspeople want to be sticks in the mud, she'll take matters into her own hands and find the kindred spirits who appreciate everything the garden has to offer.
Millie Fleur's Poison Garden encourages readers to embrace what makes them wonderfully weird! Perfect for readers of The Creepy Carrots and fans of the Addams Family movies.