Beside the Pond

<p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Beside the Pond: A Big Old Garden Story</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> is a nature-inspired children's book in the spirit of Thornton Burgess and Beatrix Potter. It is the sequel to the well-received nature-inspired children's book </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>A Year in the Big Old Garden</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>. Like its predecessor </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Beside the Pond</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> introduces young readers to a cast of backyard birds and animals and follows their adventures through the seasons. Fans of the Big Old Garden will meet new friends as well as some old ones and experience the world through the perspective of a bullfrog who has a little problem.</span></p><p></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Beside the Pond</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>'s thirteen chapters stand alone as individual stories perfect for bedtime or stolen moments throughout the day. They're crafted purposely to be read aloud for the enjoyment of parents and small children alike.Taken together the stories tell a unified tale about the animals and birds who live around the little moon-shaped pond in the Big Old Garden so </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Beside the Pond</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> can also be enjoyed as a chapter book for readers ages 7-10.</span></p>