Diana’s White House Garden
by Elisa Carbone (Author) and Jen Hill (Illustrator)
Booktalk: Diana Hopkins lived in a white house. THE White House.
World War II is in full force across the seas. It’s 1943, President Roosevelt is in office, and Diana’s father, Harry Hopkins, is his chief advisor. And Diana wants to be part of the war effort. After some well-intentioned missteps (her quarantine sign on her father’s office door was not well-received), the President requests her help with his newest plan for the country’s survival: Victory Gardens!
Based on a true story (See a photo of Diana Hopkins with First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt in the back of the book.)
Snippet: Diana worked with George, the groundskeeper.
They turned over the soil.
They fertilized with chicken manure.
Then Diana planted bean seeds and carrot seeds, cabbage plants and tomato plants.
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