Flower Garden by Eve Bunting, illus by Kathryn Hewitt, harcourt Brace and Co., 1994, ISBN 0-15-228776-0
Publisher's Summary: Helped by her father, a young girl prepares a flower garden as a birthday surprise for her mother.
A warm, sweet book about a little girl working hard to bring joy to her mother on her birthday. Great book for kindergartners--use when studying gardens, springtime, colors, flowers, following directions, sequencing, lots of possibilities. Some good upper-level vocabulary words to introduce as well (trowel, pansies, daffodils, geraniums, jamboree).
