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Springtime Cuddle Up

A perfect new picture book for the spring season, The Dog’s Gardener by Patricia Storms and Nathalie Dion will inspire readers to get out and get their hands dirty with their furry friends.

In a small house with a great big yard, live Dutch and their owner. They spend their days together in “the bright time of year” outside digging and planting peacefully, enjoying each other’s company.

The Dog’s Gardener is a lovely, meditative picture book that will inspire all of your little gardeners and animals lovers. Patricia Storms has an impeccable way with words, calling spring “the bright time of year” and describing the all of the sights and sounds of the garden with such visual language. Her stories are those keepsake type stories, ones that you will read over and over again and that evoke all of those wonderful cozy feelings of childhood and love. The Dog’s Gardener is certainly a treasure book that you will love to read in the garden.

The illustrations by Nathalie Dion transport the reader directly into the backyard garden. Dutch and the lady have this ethereal quality to them, as does the garden with all of it’s young buds and big shade trees. 

The Dog’s Gardener is a book you can get lost in, a dream and a perfect cuddle up time story