Bert's Garden

Bert enjoys gardening and growing food for his family and friends.

When a beetle keeps Bert awake at night, Grandpa helps him come up with a plan…

Includes information on how to build your own bug house.

Review by Philip Ardagh: "Celestine makes her animal characters and props, poses them in natural surroundings and photographs them as illustrations for her stories. This instantly gives her books an endearing touch of Tales of The Riverbank – for those of us old enough to remember the TV show -- but with very much her own twist and her own special take on nature.

In BERT’S GARDEN, Bert, who is vole, “always makes sure there are extra wild strawberries for the circus mice who pass by in the summer.” In that one sentence and the accompanying picture, Celestine conjures up a whole world – a whole life – beyond the immediate story; the sign of a true storyteller. Bert’s story is a simple one, and he ends up making a bug house for some visitors to his garden. They return his kindness a thousand-fold. We are even given tips on making a bug house of our very own. But BERT’S GARDEN is about more than caring for our environment. It’s about caring for each other. And there’s no more important story than that. It is, quite simply, a delight."