The bright pages of this simple, beautifully illustrated tour of garden life follow a young African-American boy as he spots wrens in the birch, a mantis in the cabbage, a snake in the grape vine, a turtle under the rhubarbm and so on, until he hides himself in the bean trellis. Factual tidbits slip into the spare text, accompanied by finely detailed watercolors, reinforcing the relationship between plants and creatures.