Pip and the Underneath
A story about the small work nobody sees.
Everyone in Cottage Creek Garden has a job you can see. Everyone except Pip. While Sunny shades the lettuce and Clover zips from flower to flower, Pip goes bumpety, bumpety, bump, down where nobody is looking. And when little Theo asks what HIS job is, Pip realizes he doesn't have an answer.
But when the tomato bed grows tired and droopy, the smallest bug in the garden turns out to be the only one who knows what to do, because beneath every good garden there is a busy, glowing world hard at work: the Underneath.
A gentle read-aloud about the quiet, unseen work that holds everything up, and about mattering even when nobody is watching, for ages 3–8. A lovely first look at the tiny helpers living in every garden's soil.
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Inside you'll find
- Gently bolded sight words for early readers
- 5 bonus coloring pages
- NEW: Grandma Bea's Garden Notebook, a real gardening activity to try together
- A Note for Grown-Ups with talk-about-it-together questions
Ages 3–8 · read-aloud · narrated by Mari in the animated series.
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The read-along · narrated by Mari
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