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Lucy’s Secret by Mireille Levert – Planting Beautiful Ideas

Posted on February 5th, 2011 by Carolyn Hart

Lucy's Secret by Mireille Levert is a lovely picture book about gardeningLucy’s Secret – written and illustrated by Mireille Levert
Picture Book published by Groundwood Books


When Lucy visits Anna Zinnia’s garden, she is enchanted by all she sees; beautiful flowers and busy insects. When Anna Zinnia reveals a box of seeds, she tells Lucy, ‘In each seed lies a hidden, baby flower.’ Lucy plants the seeds and then waits and waits for the young plants to appear.

Lucy’s Secret is richly illustrated and simply told. It will be a lovely accompaniment for your springtime seed planting and gardening activities.

32 pages, ages 3 to 5

Lucy’s Secret at Amazon.com

Lucy’s Secret at Amazon.ca

You may also be interested in our free, printable, Planting a Flower Garden sequencing activity.

image of PDF icon  Planting a Flower Garden Sequencing Activity



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