Growing Together: Saturday Storytime with Ruth Spiro

Join The Book Stall for a special Saturday Storytime featuring Ruth Spiro and her new picture book, Growing Together, a bountiful celebration of community, teamwork, and gardening. A child and a seedling find themselves at home in their local urban community garden. With the help of firefighters, chefs, shopkeepers, and many more members of their community, they grow alongside the flowers, vegetables, friendships, and more all summer long, together. Young readers and gardeners will also love the backmatter with fun facts about the produce grown in the story. This book is perfect for kids ages 4 to 8. 

Ruth Spiro is the bestselling author of over thirty children’s books, including Love Grows, the bestselling Baby Loves Science series, How to Explain Coding to a Grown-Up, and Made by Maxine. Her books have been praised by the Los Angeles Times, NPR, TODAY, Popular Science, and the National Science Teaching Association. Ruth speaks regularly at schools and early childhood conferences across the country. She lives in suburban Chicago, Illinois, with her husband, two daughters, and many, many plants!