Cathryn Barkulis-Smith

How Does Your Garden Grow While Six Feet Apart? Cathryn Barkulis-Smith

Review and Critique written by Jefferson from FirstEditing:
"This is a wonderful book-one that I think is going to resonate with child readers, who might be particularly anxious in these challenging times. Cathryn has succinctly and accurately captured the challenges that we are all facing with this pandemic, but she has also done a marvelous job of showing the good that has come from it, both with the healing natural world and with the coming "alone together" of people and families all over the world."
This children's story is based upon an American grade-school classroom's real experiences with Covid-19 and how a class project for Mother's Day was saved. As Mother's Day seeds emerge into flowers, the story's characters bloom. The flowers reflect the heroes' personalities and unique expressions. That is, the archetypes and insights of each flower's essence guide the reader to their true nature.
Medicine woman Simply Cathryn's forty years of plant experience draws the reader into what she calls the language of flowers. This tale teaches the reader to treat life's changes as opportunities to become a problem-solver, and it tunes into plant wisdom to teach lessons, such as the virtue of kindness.
The moral of this floral story is "Bloom right where you are."