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Grandpa Farouk’s Garden
Matthew Kalil
CC BY 4.0Credits & Licence
Originally published by Book Dash. Writer: Matthew Kalil. Illustrator: Sam van Riet. Designer: Nina Lewis. Editor: Ingrid Nye.
Cover resized and converted to WebP; artwork unchanged. Suitabook’s AI guidance is a separate assessment.
Original Book on Book Dash: Grandpa Farouk’s Garden (opens in a new tab)- Reading
- Pause over the garden illustrations as they change, and invite your child to spot what is different. Afterwards, talk together about helpful and harmful roles in a garden.
- Themes
- Care and problem-solving: Amir helps Grandpa with garden tasks and searches for ladybirds when pests are eating the plants. Their shared work and Amir’s sustained search are presented warmly, and the garden later blossoms.
- Worth knowing
- The garden’s decline is visible, including bare branches and damaged plants, but the story keeps the problem focused on the garden rather than danger to people.