Garden Glen is a very bland place. Every house and every garden looks exactly like the other. That is until Millie Fleur La Fae comes to town.
Up on a scruffy hill beside a ramshackle house, Millie Fleur plants her marvelously strange garden, filled with Sneezing Stickyweed, Fanged Fairymoss, and Grumpy Gilliflower. Millie Fleur finds it enchanting, but the townspeople of Garden Glen call it poison!
But Millie Fleur is proud of her beloved little garden. So, if some townspeople want to be sticks in the mud, she’ll take matters into her own hands and find the kindred spirits who appreciate everything the garden has to offer.
For anyone who’s ever felt a little bit weird.
The world is more interesting with you in it!
I would have loved this book as a kid. If your child is drawn to stories involving the strange and unusual, this is the book for them.
You can tell the author/illustrator had fun designing the peculiar plants. I love how each plant has a plant marker. My favorite plants were the Fanged Fairy Moss and Ghost Nettle. However, I was confused by the mushrooms that looked like pointy witch hats.
During your second or third reading through this book, try to find the following objects:
- A snail with a skull shell
- A book titled ‘How to Train Your Venus Flytrap.’
- A reference to Frankenstein’s monster
In the back of the book, you can learn about two wonderfully weird plants you can grow yourself and the real-life Poison Garden at Alnwick Garden in England.