From: Beth Martin <bmartin>
Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2003 14:19:19 -0500

One of my favorite books about community is a 69 pager by Paul Fleischman called Seedfolks. A community develops when a young girl plants a seed in a garbage filled vacant lot. An elderly neighbor who sees this from an upper story apartment window thinks that she is hiding drugs and has her elderly friend check it out. When he discovers that it is a plant, he waters it.....from this humble beginning a community garden begins. The book has 13 chapters, very different voices----old, young, Haitian, Hispanic, tough etc... It is absolutely wonderful. My favorite is a tough guy who plants his plot with his ex-girlfriends favorite variety of tomatoes so that he can make salsa and win her back.
 I started reading this book to my family at the dinner table one night and we sat there until I had read the entire book!
Received on Thu 02 Oct 2003 02:19:19 PM CDT