And Ms. Potters obviously deep knowledge of animal behavior AND gardening, making her able to conjure such believable interactions. I liked kid detective books like Encyclopedia Brown & Nancy Drew. The photos in Lost and Found are lovely! It motivated me to become a physician and work for health and human rights around the world. Its been a hard season for the roses, so I feel like my new additions didnt quite get to shine like they normally would. Later, as I grew, I enjoyed the Hardy Boys. I can feel the landscape surrounding the children, the healing of sunlight, the bonds they forged, and the image of the book cover (mine has lovely pinks and greens). When I moved to the states at 10, I read my first book (Harry Potter) and that opened my interest in reading and fantasy! Later in Jr and Senior high school I was able to access the library where I found The Hobbit and other adventure stories. The Secret Garden was and still is one of my favorite childhood books. New Zealand is a beautiful country with wonderful people. I still love them. Thank you for sharing them, along with your interview introducing Zoe, her mum and dad. Peter would love it! My Mom was a kindergarten teacher who started our schools library in western PA when I was 7, making the passion of reading mine forever. Thank you again, for opening our eyes to the endless variety of Gods creation.. The Giving Tree comes to mind. I loved the search and find books as a child, too! Thanks to you and your beautiful book. We moved from Nebraska to Oregon and I was able to explore and find local flowers to press, sketch and paint with watercolors. His childrens board book, I Am A Bunny remains my favorite book of his. My escape in those days were books and my dreams. pearl, earl and whirl all rhyme with girl in my book BaskerviIle. I read Nancy Drew, Golden Books(including The Golden Encyclopedia), Beauty & The Beast, all the Winnie- THE POOH books, Walt Disneys Secrets of Life, and Alice in Wonderland! Im a therapist now so I get the same experience but its someone verbally sharing their world! I notice details and pick up on peoples body language and am always interested in knowing peoples stories. A cold, cloudy day as the suns rays slowly emerge, with the hope of warmth and rebirth, I am reminded of one of my favorite stories as a child, The Secret Garden. I loved The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe! I learn to respect the ocean and Mother Nature as well. I also loved the waiting time in my pediatricians office looking at the Highlights magazine, especially the Seek & Find puzzles! I sped through the Goosebumps series at the library and then was left hunting for more ways to get that safe, scary thrill of reading a horror novel. But, another one that they can have would be nice. As a toddler, I absolutely loved my heavy & large illustrated Mother Goose nursery rhymes hardcover book, and was impatient with always having to wait for adults to read to me, so it motivated me to learn how to read by myself at a very early age :-) By the age of 5, I could read & correctly pronounce any passage wording in the entire Bible! Nancy Drew. Each evening was a new adventure. We lost her last August and our lives have not been there same. I loved to read historical and regular fantasy. I was most impressed by the book, which is well known all over the world and probably everyone will know what I am writing about. The only book I had as a small child was all about fairy tales. Near rhymes work great for songwriting, often giving a more interesting feel than perfect rhymes. I have one granddaughter that is very keen on learning about gardens and all things natural. Its all about the Lupine Lady who plants seeds to make the world more beautiful. Starting at a young age she shared her books, her knowledge and love for anything handmade or hand touched. I fully felt the turmoil at being sent to bed without supper, imagined what the arduous journey across the sea must have felt like, and had to summon the courage to look at the pages of the rumpus as the illustrations of the wild things actually scared me! As a young child, I read every Little Golden Book I could get my hands on! Reading the authors description of the natural landscape (including flowers! Also, this is not a book but I eagerly awaited the arrival of Sunset Magazine every month and read it from cover to cover! Cicely Mary Barkers Flower Fairy series was the first seed for my current love of gardening. I guess I wanted to find myself lost in time periods and places that would challenge my way of thinking. thank you for this My favorite book as a child was, The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett. I think the second delight was the best! I cant recall having a favorite type of book. It taught me many of the skills I needed to care for having my own. I loved the book The Secret Garden as a child. Im definitely intrigued to venture into this artistic beauty contained in a book. Go Orange. Im also hoping I can visit your farm as I roadtrip through WA state this summer! The Secret Garden was my favorite book, I would play outside for hours creating my own secret garden in our yard, and I called it my property. Now, my husband and I are working hard to find our own property to build our own farm/garden, and Im so excited to get to work on it someday. A book sharing someones story and journey always captivated my heart too. I loved so many books as a child- all of the Beatrix Potter books. I was raised on a dairy farm and there were 8 children. Its a depression era story about a little girl sent to live with her uncle in the city because of depression era poverty. I came home with Misty of Chincoteague and was instantly in love. I loved a book called Over and Over which was a little girls learning about the seasons. Owl at Home, Frog and Toad, and the rest. As I child getting read stories from the Bible by my parents before my bedtime. We had the famous Book It program so I would read as many books as I could get from the library. I found comfort with Winnie the Pooh as he always accepted whatever came his way. I loved the Little Train that Could. I was always drawn to stories such as Anne of Green Gables, Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm , and in my later teens, Little House on the Prairie. And still hope a fairy will make her home here. Thank you. When I had children it was fun to read them again and see them smile. Some of them (looking back now) were kind of scary but I loved them all the same. These pages are a feast for the eyes, and the soul. Always attracted to anybody named Zoe. I loved being able to re-read each story and have a few different endings. Thanks for the opportunity to win a book, it looks gorgeous. I would love a copy of this book because the seek and find aspect is so cool! It is so filled with grace and creativity and of course, beauty from all those luscious flowers and those tending to their growth. I especially remember a book I had of fish that I would look at over and again. I think that book pushed me to appreciate nature and flowers more, although I always have loved them; the graphic descriptions of an old dying garden hidden from the world behind crumbling stone walls and ever-climbing ivy sounded fantastical and yet, real, to me. I also loved beautiful coffee table books about art, travel, and nature photography. Thanks for joining us again Zo, and congratulations on your new book! Its dreamy. The way the book was written and how the out-of-doors was described helped me to visualize more strongly the depth of the healing that went on in the children. I was inspired by religious books. But the Roald Dahl books were so enchanting especially Fantastic Mr. Fox. Although I read everything I could get my hands on pretty much. I have long-admired Zo from afar and am dying to visit her farm in person someday. The peace and beauty. I was so sad to realize they would be too much for me. I also love gardening and photography and am excited to photograph our emerging spring daffodils. God bless you! Ive always been a sensitive person and that book helped me to understand compassion. Such a delight this book is! Eventually I started to read the chapters aloud and finally reading whole books on my own. Wherever I travel in the world, flowers befriend me. Place all the food in one pile and the rhyming objects in another. So flowers, nature and magical creatures have always found me as I too look for them. Her illustrations are colorful and full of movement to go along with her stories. But I was fascinated when I saw the scenes in gardens and in the nature and I think that I felt the spirit of it. There are so many favorites, among them being the Dr Seuss books, One fish two fish red fish blue fish, Green Eggs and Ham. It has shaped my life in many ways. My early years of first reading was my parents daily newspapers and I love looking through the pages and pages of words that I could not read yet then Pretending to be able to read them with pictures of flowers or animals on the side or top of it is a splendid delight of moments with my parents. Interestingly, Zoe is a family name, my grandmother Zoe from Belgium, my sister Zoe, my niece Zoey.and my husbands nieces name is Zoe. Thanks! I loved reading the national geographic series on ocean animals. Thanks so much for a glimpse into your secret gardens and life in New Zeland.Kare. As I had daughters of my own, I read this book to each of them. In life and garden, it has always been about the visual details for me. beautiful book! is like nothing Ive ever seen beforeits like the seek-and-find books I loved as a kid, but made for flower lovers! Over the winter, we pulled out lots of roses that were underperforming. My favorite book as a child was Boxcar Children. We are just moving into a new build with a blank slate and cannot wait to get started. I could not wait for another chapter of Charlottes Web to be read. Ive read this with my own kids many times! Little House on the Prairie books. I wish to this day I knew what that book was! Aside from a few old trees around the house, it was a clean slate. This has carried on through my adult years and theyre still my favorite books to read. As a child, I was fascinated with Anne Frank. I look forward to reading this ew took from down under. Some of my best memories. [Rhymes] Lyrics and poems Near rhymes Thesaurus Phrases Mentions Phrase rhymes Descriptive words Definitions Similar sound Same consonants Advanced >> Words and phrases that rhyme with alexis: (72 results) 2 syllables: -rrhexis, flexus, . Also the companionship of a dog and owner is truly amazing. I have dreamed for decades of creating my own secret garden and am now finally beginning to bring one to life! As a child, Magic Eye & I Spy books were formative to my imagination. She brings seeds with (from her dear grandmother who taught her about gardening) and sows flowers everywhere. I loved American and English literature like The Great Gatsby, Wuthering Heights, The Scarlet Letter and Treasure Island. Show all. I was and still am a voracious reader. Books that foster a creative imagination are so important! Like a flower I got a youngster , a seedling , put in the work like a flower feed water nutrition and alove affair was born. Many thanks to those of you who share the beauty of flowers with so many. This book is gorgeous!!!! It shaped me by showing me the importance of reading to my own children, which I did for many, many years. I definitely agree with Zo, I loved seek and find books as a child as well. Over the years I have learned how important color and pictures play into my creativity, jumpstart my imagination and affect how I perceive the world. They were funny and they were how I learned to read with my mom because i was homeschooled. Unlike many of the other kids in school, I dreaded library time because it meant I had to be quiet and read a book full of black and white words that was picked out for us by an adult for homework. My favorite book from my childhood was called The Little Kitten. Today I still look for the mysteries of each day to be solved on the next page of living! Years later I became an artist, a marketer, and finally a garden designer. It was easy to lose myself in that world. My 3 children inherited my love of books and we discovered the seek and find books when my youngest was born in 1996, and they quickly became her favorite. 4. To say that that little book has influenced my life is an understatement!
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