Celia Planted a Garden: The Story of Celia Thaxter and Her Island Garden

Phyllis Root, Gary D. Schmidt

From an all-star team comes a lyrical picture-book biography about a writer and master gardener who created beauty in a harsh island habitat that was visited by literary and artistic luminaries of her time.Celia Thaxter grew up on a desolate island off the coast of Maine, where her father worked as lighthouse…