Capucilli, Alyssa Satin. Biscuit and Friends Visit the Community Garden. Rose Mary Berlin, Illus. Easy Reader. I Can Read: My First Biscuit Series; bk. 25. HarperCollins, 03/2022. 32pp. $16.99. 978-0-06-291001-1. HIGH ADDITIONAL. GRADES PRE-1.
Biscuit the puppy accompanies his owner, a young, unnamed white girl, to the community garden where they help others. For example, Biscuit helps pull up carrots and finds a lost teddy bear for a little Black girl. Often the text is set down in four lines per page, using a bold, sizable typeface with a good amount of white space, telling the story in a straightforward, traditional manner. “Just then, Biscuit heard a familiar sound. Bow wow! Bow wow! What could it be?” The pastel watercolor artwork uses white backgrounds and shows many features of a garden that readers can identify, including tools, seeds, vegetable growing boxes, and more. The people shown depict various races and ethnicities, which is a nice feature.
Penny Peck, San Jose State University, iSchool