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Book 1: Who Grows in the Garden

The nightingale has returned from distant Africa and is looking for a place to build a nest. And there are so many trees and bushes in the garden! Which of them can become a home for the bird? Perhaps it's a cherry, sweet cherry or cherry plum? A plum or a pear? Each tree tells the nightingale its own story, emphasising what makes it special. In the stories of the trees, there is also the image of the grandfather-gardener - a smart and kind man who treated trees as spiritual beings, talked to them and nurtured them - and his family, who still lives in the house nearby, honours the trees and collects their fruits.

The book «Who Grows in the Garden» is not only an incredibly interesting journey through the garden, in which readers will learn what makes fruit trees special and how to recognise them, it is a story about finding a home and your place in the world, about how only by knowing your roots can you understand the truth about yourself.

«Who Grows in the Garden» is the next book in a series of educational books about trees created by writer Kateryna Mikhalitsyna and artist Oksana Bula. The first was Who Grows in the Park, which was selected in 2016 for the annual catalogue of book recommendations in the field of international children's and youth literature by The White Ravens.

Book 2. Who grows up in the park

This is a short story about important things: about growing up and finding yourself, about similarities and differences, and the importance of having someone who is at least a little bit like you in some way. And also about the trees around us, which we pass by, but we don't always know who grows here. That's why the book will be useful for everyone who wants to know the most common park trees by name and learn to distinguish them: in a fabulous playful way, thanks to the wonderful illustrations, it is so easy to remember what they look like, what kind of bark, seeds, leaves, and flowers they have.

A small sprout that has grown in the park looks around, carefully examines its neighbours - birch, oak, rowan, maple, ash, sycamore, chestnut, poplar, willow - and looks for whose it is. Because it is sad to be nobody's. Because happiness is to find someone like you in this world.