One Little Lot: The 1-2-3s of an Urban Garden

In a bustling, urban neighborhood, count the ways one little lot becomes a beautiful community vegetable garden.

Count all the ways (one to ten) an urban community unites to clean up an abandoned lot. From building planter boxes to pulling weeds to planting seeds, everyone works together to transform the lot into a bountiful vegetable garden. As the garden grows, strangers become friends, eventually sharing in a special feast with the harvest they grew.

Diane C. Mullen is a Minneapolis-based writer, filmmaker, arts educator, and mother of two grown kids. She earned her MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults from Hamline University. Diane enjoys cycling everywhere around her beloved city; tending a plot in the Soo Line Community Garden; and working at the renowned Walker Art Center. She is the author of the middle grade novel, Tagged and the picture book, One Little lot: The 1-2-3s of an Urban Garden.

Oriol Vidal is an illustrator of many books for children, including the Time Jumpers and Hello Genius series. He is also a storyboard artist. Oriol lives in Barcelona, Spain. www.oriolvidal.es