Jenny Fern rated The Crucible: 5 stars
The Crucible by Arthur Miller (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
'I believe that the reader will discover here the essential nature of one of the strangest and most awful chapters …
As a gardener who practices permaculture and focuses on creating habitat for various creatures in her yard, I really thought this would be the book for me. I love the topic and am very happy to see such a helpful idea explored in a children's book!
I enjoyed the art style but sometimes found the story told in the images slightly difficult to follow. (Why do we need to remove the grill to have a pond?) I think most of what this book does is encourage kids to ask for a wild garden and give parents a starting point for what to look into.
The kids are initially inspired by a jungle scene, and they're not going to get that or those types of animals in their UK backyard. I can imagine that being disappointing to a kid. I think the real joy of a wild garden is seeing how …