Hello Community,
What do you think about the characters and setting; who are we missing.
Title:
We are a Part in Nature's Great Garden
A Guide to the Cycles of Nature
Age range plus format
- Ages 5 to 12, read aloud friendly, also works as early chapter book
- Big art, short scenes, plenty dialogue
- Each chapter uses two tracks
- Main Story, simple sentences for younger readers
- Deep Dig box, extra details for older readers
- Each chapter ends with a quick Try It plus a small cliffhanger question
Story thread plus mission
- Familiar food thread: Berry the strawberry shows up every chapter
- Mission thread: Berry patch looks droopy, soil feels hard, bees feel scarce
- Rowan wants Berry to thrive again
- Each chapter reveals one clue plus one small action that helps
Main themes
- Collaboration, every helper has a role
- Connection, sun, air, water, soil life, plants, animals, people link
Repeatable chapter pattern
- Berry Check, what Berry needs right now
- Story Scene, action first
- Field Note, one short truth
- Deep Dig, optional extra layer
- Try It, one simple activity
- Cliffhanger, one question that pulls us onward
Cast
- Rowan, curious kid narrator
- Grandma Grace, calm guide who asks simple questions
- Berry, the strawberry story thread
- Soil Team seen through a garden magnifier
- Brix the Bacteria, quick recycler, catchphrase: “Snack time, tiny time”
- Myra the Mycorrhiza, fungal thread network, catchphrase: “We connect”
- Pia the Protozoa, micro hunter, catchphrase: “Balance keeps us strong”
- Nori the Nematode, tiny grazer, catchphrase: “Tiny bites, big gifts”
- Willa the Worm, tunnel builder, catchphrase: “Roads for rain”
- Bea the Bee, pollinator friend, catchphrase: “Flowers first”
Setting
- School garden that becomes a small oasis
- Compost corner, mulched bed, flower strip, one observation spot
Book today Movie tomorrow :-)