A beautiful and sad story of a young girl who helps at her community garden. This story goes through the cycle of seasons as the garden grows. When her elderly friend passes, our little girl must learn how to go on, since after winter spring always returns.

What a darling little children's book. The artwork is stunning and so is the message. I can't wait to share this one with my own children.

This was so beautiful and lovely!! It's gorgeously illustrated in warm tones and shows the journey of planting in a community garden.

The Garden We Share is a lovely picture book about seeing the cycle of life through gardening and celebrating the harvest with others. When the child's gardening partner, her grandmother, dies she is able to honor and celebrate her grandmother by planting a new garden with the seeds they gathered together.

What a beautiful children's book! Growth, patience, community, loss, and remembrance, among other subjects, are all touched on in such a delicate and thoughtful way in this story. The illustrations add so much warmth and depth to the story. I can't wait to see this title in print!

Thank you to NetGalley and North South Books for an advanced read e-copy of The Garden We Share in exchange for an honest review.

I received this book from the publisher for review and all thoughts and opinions are my own.
Publication date: March 22, 2022
This sweet children’s book is illustrated by Julianna Swaney, the illustrator of Joanna Gaines book “We Are The Gardeners”.
Friendship between a young girl and an elderly woman blossoms as well as their garden plots. Seasons of life and death themes are featured prominently.
Written with a worldview perspective on nature and humanity. Not recommending for Faith based homeschool families.

Loved this! The text and illustrations work together here to evoke a sense of the quiet and passing time of planting in a garden. The friendship between the little girl and the old woman was beautiful and her loss at the end was handled in such a subtle way that with very young children you'd have the option of talking about it with them or skipping over it.

A perfect little picture book - bursting with hope, delight and the soul-affirming promise of a nascent new day.

As a little girl and her grandmother sow a garden we see the wonder each little seed brings, following the cycle of life laid out for us, from the tiniest green shoots emerging from the warm soil, to full and gorgeous bloom, and finally the inevitable autumn rest and winter slumber. Along the way, it’s impossible to resist, as the gorgeous illustrations invite us, along with the little gardener, to enjoy the unparalleled sounds and smells of nature in all its glory.

As a bountiful crop is produced and shared with friends and neighbors, we learn about community, about food as natured intended, and about the indescribable joy a gardener feels as caretaker and nurturer of growth and hope.

Like a whoosh of clean and sparkling air, this book is a sheer delight from start to finish - just begging to be shared with tiny budding gardeners everywhere.

A great big thank you to NetGalley, the author and the publisher for an ARC of this book. All thoughts presented are my own.

This is a very sweet picturebook not just about gardening but love and life as well. With life comes death and the grief of it too. Very nice and would definitely recommend if you want a picturebook for kids in your life.

I received and ARC of this book from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. This is a sweet little picture book about dealing with grief and remembering those we love.

This sweet book weaves the story of life and death through the seasons, and starting with the planting of seeds in a shared community garden. The illustrations are beautiful. The story is a lovely way of opening up a conversation with young children about love, loss, and sweet memories that show up in the simplest ways, like when planting a garden.

I didn’t come here to cry OK
Very short and sweet story. Beautifully illustrated and shows a great way to process the loss of a cherished love one. I bet there are some kids that could use that right about now

This was a cute story, but I think much of it would be lost on children. Who are these women the child is gardening with? How can we make it clearer that the grandmother died? I think it is a great story to use to get kids into gardening and using the produce they grow in cooking though. Very beautifully illustrated.

This is a gentle picture book about gardening, the seasons, and intergenerational friendship. A little girl helps her elderly friend plant seeds in the garden early in the year. As they nurture their garden, the plants grow and create a lovely space where the community can spend time and share the bounty. As the year cycles back around to the beginning, there are changes in people's lives... but the little girl continues on, grateful for the memories of gardening with her friend.

I really enjoyed the descriptive language used here, which evokes a lush and abundant garden full of all sorts of wonderful things to share with the community. The illustrations, largely done in a warm colour palette, are the perfect complement to the text. I'm not sure how much appeal this will have to kids looking for an engaging story, but I can see the value of a book like this in a classroom, especially accompanying teaching about gardening or seasons.

I received a copy of this book from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

This is a fantastic children's book. The story is wonderful and the pictures are beautiful!

Closer to nature and closer to grandmas;
Fun to read, nostalgic and frolic;
I very much adore this little book of hope and wonder.

Dear artist, you have done such an awesome job. The art and the colours are subtle yet I am here for it. All the coziness this winter needs is right here in this picture book.

We need more of such books!

Thank you, author/artist for the advance reading copy.

Thanks to Netgalley and North South Books for a free digital copy.

What a delightful story of the love and enjoyment of gardening in all it's stages. The illustrations are sweet and oh so lovely.

So a more detailed review of this book will come out when it is closer to the time of its release

I loved this book, it was so sweet and heartwarming and I can't give too much away but I will say that this is the perfect book to get children into gardening and even as a way to handle grief

I received this E-ARC on Netgalley in return for a fair and honest review

"I hold the seeds tightly in my hand, each little dot full of hope and promise."

Adorable book that shares the joys of gardening and embracing the seasons of change. I love gardening and think this is a great book to share with littles.

This is such a beautifully illustrated story with a majorly heartwarming message of hope after loss. I enjoyed the creative vocabulary choices and this is definitely one I’d like to have on my shelves for my own children.