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Bugville Critters
Sarah’s Garden of Sentences
A Blooming Language Adventure About Building Complete Thoughts
By R. Stanek (Robert Stanek)
About the story
Sarah Silkworm wants to create a welcoming garden of paper flowers for the Bugville Library, but her beautiful word cards do not yet express clear ideas. With help from Buster, Barry, Lass, Cat, Dag, Tim, and Miss Bookmark, Sarah sorts naming words, action words, articles, capital letters, and punctuation marks until each flower carries a sentence everyone can understand.
Gentle, imaginative, and designed for listening, Sarah’s Garden of Sentences introduces the parts that help a sentence feel clear and complete. As the friends combine their different strengths, young listeners discover that words work best when they have meaningful jobs—and that stories, gardens, and friendships all grow when everyone has something to contribute.
- Catalog group
- Current / next generation
- Age band
- 5-8
- Series
- Bugville Critters
- Edition identity
- ISBN 9781666003970
Buster BeeBarry BeetleLass LadybugCat CaterpillarSarah SilkwormDag DragonflyTim EarthwormBugville Librarygrammarpunctuationcapitalsarticlesnounsteamwork
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