Millie Fleur's Poison Garden

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Author(s)

Christy Mandin

Publisher

Orchard Books

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Release Date

July 02, 2024

ISBN

978-1339023274

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AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES AND INDIE BESTSELLER! Wednesday Addams meets The Curious Garden in this delightfully peculiar story. Millie Fleur's Poison Garden is a reminder to embrace everything that makes us wonderfully weird.

Garden Glen is a very bland place. Every house and every garden looks exactly like the other. That is… until Millie Fleur La Fae comes to town.

Up on a scruffy hill, beside a ramschackle house, Millie Fleur plants her marvelously strange garden, filled with Sneezing Stickyweed, Fanged Fairymoss, and Grumpy Gilliflower. Millie Fleur finds it enchanting, but the townspeople of Garden Glen call it poison!

But Millie Fleur is proud of her beloved little garden. So if some townspeople want to be sticks in the mud, she'll take matters into her own hands and find the kindred spirits who appreciate everything the garden has to offer.

Millie Fleur's Poison Garden encourages readers to embrace what makes them wonderfully weird! Perfect for readers of The Creepy Carrots and fans of the Addams Family movies.

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Delightfully weird

October 28, 2024

Overall rating

4.8

Plot

4.0

Characters

5.0

Writing Style

5.0

Illustrations/Photos (if applicable)

5.0

Millie Fleur’s Poison Garden is a book my children pull off the shelf again and again, always finding something fun tucked into the illustrations.

Blending whimsical charm with a hint of mystery, giving off “Little Shop of Horrors” and "Wednesday" vibes, Millie Fleur's Poison Garden inspires readers to remain true to oneself with her courage and determination. The book is also based on the real Poison Garden at Alnwick, and includes information about it in the end notes, as well as information about a couple of off beat plants that are real and can be grown at home!

Christy Mandin includes diverse characters, imagination, a connection to a historical poisonous garden, and more! Children and adults will love this brilliantly written and wonderfully engaging story!