Millie Fleur's Poison Garden
Scholastic Inc. · Print & ebook · July 2, 2024
A Picture Books pick for readers exploring Millie Fleur's Poison Garden.
We earn from qualifying purchases.
- Who it’s for
- A peculiar garden brings playful strangeness to a town that prefers everything alike.
- Themes
- Embracing individuality, Belonging, Unusual gardens
- Genres
- Imagination & Play, Flowers & Plants, Halloween Stories
Nearest books
Matched by what the books are about, then ordered by what their readers also loved.
Millie Fleur Saves the NightChristy Mandin76% matchShares Flowers & Plants and Halloween Stories
The Café at the Edge of the WoodsMikey Please55% match
Lost EvangelineKate DiCamillo53% match
Pepper and MeBeatrice Alemagna53% match
The QuackenJustin Colón52% match
Where the Deer Slip ThroughKatey Howes53% match
Grandmother ThornKatey Howes61% matchShares Flowers & Plants
For older readers: Into the Bright Open: a Secret Garden Remix, Crime and Poetry, Mage and the Endless Unknown
Start with three books, and this one can be the first.
Members get a new edition every morning: a route out from their books to essays, research and talks, with the reason for each.
Start with this bookAbout this book
*A great book for holiday gifting, and one of the best picture books of 2024! *An instant New York Times and Indie Bestseller! Wednesday Addams meets The Curious Garden in this delightfully peculiar story. Millie Fleur's Poison Garden is a reminder to embrace everything that makes us wonderfully weird. Garden Glen is a very bland place. Every house and every garden looks exactly like the other. That is… until Millie Fleur La Fae comes to town.
Continue reading
Up on a scruffy hill, beside a ramschackle house, Millie Fleur plants her marvelously strange garden, filled with Sneezing Stickyweed, Fanged Fairymoss, and Grumpy Gilliflower. Millie Fleur finds it enchanting, but the townspeople of Garden Glen call it poison! But Millie Fleur is proud of her beloved little garden. So if some townspeople want to be sticks in the mud, she'll take matters into her own hands and find the kindred spirits who appreciate everything the garden has to offer. Millie Fleur's Poison Garden encourages readers to embrace what makes them wonderfully weird! Perfect for readers of The Creepy Carrots and fans of the Addams Family movies.
Odd Gardens, Open Minds
A peculiar garden brings playful strangeness to a town that prefers everything alike.
Come here for
- Inventive, delightfully odd plant names
- A nudge to celebrate what makes you wonderfully weird
Expect
- A whimsical picture-book tale with a proudly peculiar garden
- Warm humor set against a very samey town
Where it sits
| Halloween Stories | 46% |
|---|---|
| Flowers & Plants | 45% |
| Imagination & Play | 38% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Halloween Stories
- Self-Esteem & Resilience
- Imagination & Play
- Authors
- Christy Mandin
- Publisher
- Scholastic Inc.
- Published
- July 2, 2024
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Embracing individuality · Belonging · Unusual gardens
- Reading lane
- Halloween Stories