LitPick Review
The book Anna and the Food Forest is a story centered around a girl named Anna who enjoys gardening. She begins the story as an amateur gardener who hardly understands the requirements to grow a strawberry plant. Unexpectedly, her classmates look to her for help when planting a garden at a sister school. Weirdly, the garden plan takes off like an airplane on runway, and many volunteers rush in to help.
Opinion:
I enjoyed the concept of the story: a girl enjoying nature. But the story seemed incoherent and loosely put together. The brief appearance of a talking sun made no sense and left me wondering if the story is realistic fiction or fantasy.
In the span of a few paragraphs, Anna leaps from a complete novice to an "expert" on gardening. The abrupt change, after the success of only planting a strawberry plant, is a hard pill to swallow as a reader.
The strong points of the story, Anna and gardening, were not enough to carry the story. In conculsion, the book might not fit the expectations of young readers who enjoy down-to-earth realistic fiction.
