Mr. Carey's Garden

by Jane Cutler

Mr. Carey's neighbors are always offering him advice on how to rid his garden of the snails that eat holes in his plants. But Mr. Carey mysteriously says, "I see it in a different light." Then one... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 039568191X
• ISBN13: 9780395681916
• Release Date: February 1996
• Publisher: Clarion Books
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 8.3" x 10.0"
• Age Range: 4 to 7 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 2

Customer Reviews

Lessons from this book will grow in readers' minds!

This book was introduced to me during student teaching in kindergarten as part of a science kit on snails called "Snail Trails." I loved the book so much that I bought it myself (before it was at this great price!), and have been reading it to my 4th grade classes ever since. Although Mr. Carey and his neighbors don't directly agree on how to treat the gentle creatures in this book, they do agree on what beauty means, which, along with the lesson of letting all creatures live to perform what they were put on this earth to do, and their agreement blossoms into a ritualistic friendship that children will understand and appreciate. I recommend this book as an aid for children to see seemingly one-sided issues from a "different light," as Mr. Carey himself would say!

Mr. Carey's Garden of lace.

Mr. Carey is different. His garden is different. He looks at things just a little different. This book offers a wonderful message to young and old. We are different. We like different things. And we do things for different reasons. Come join the snails in Mr. Carey' Garden and find out just how different his garden of lace is.