Pizza Hut has a program that promotes books and reading call Book It! a free reading incentive program for PreK-6th grade classrooms, parents and homeschool families.
PLANTING A GARDEN IN ROOM 6: From Seeds to Salad is being featured this month at Book It! along with two other books celebrating new growth. I am in the Creator Spotlight for March. Check out the short video linked at the end of the interview in which I show how to grow a bean in a cup.
Creator Spotlight Interviewwith CAROLINE ARNOLD for Book It!:
I never thought I would be an author when I was growing up, but I loved to read. When I was in the fifth grade I tried to read all the books in the library!
I began to write when my children were small. At the time, we had a big vegetable garden behind our house.As we dug up the dirt for planting we saw wiggly worms. That gave me an idea for one of my first stories. Since then I have written 170 books for children, including my newest book about kindergarten children planting a school garden.
Writing a book is a little bit like growing a garden--planting the seed of an idea; nurturing it so it can reach its full potential; weeding to make sure it has room to grow; pruning when necessary to focus growth on the main stalk; and finally, harvesting the finished product and sharing it with others.
My favorite part of being an author is when the book is finished and I can hold it in my hand. I hope that as you turn the pages of my books you will learn something that you never knew before, just as I do every time I research and write a new book.
This VIDEO shows a project in my book, how you can grow a bean in a cup.