And the Good Brown Earth

　　Next time Gram went to the vegetable patch, Joe came too, and the birds were singing, the trees were flowering, and the rain and the sun were chasing each other across the sky.

　　"Now's watching time," said Gram, keeping an eye on those angry birds, and she made a scarecrow and stuck it in the ground.

　　Joe watched too. "Gram! Gram!" he shouted. "There are green spikes coming up!"

And the Good Brown Earth
Kathy Henderson
ISBN 978-0-7636-3841-2