I love children's books. Good ones have inspired hundreds of kids to try something new, and many of them grow up to continue doing the things they dreamt and read about on those pages. In my case, it was Meet Molly, of the American Girl series, that first got me interested in gardening. Molly planted a Victory Garden (to help feed her family during the war), so I planted a Victory Garden. While my family never relied on it (thankfully, since I was also busy playing Marco Polo in the neighborhood pool and dressing up my baby brother like a girl), the gardening bug has stayed with me ever since. My favorite new children's book, The Curious Garden, is inspired by New York City's newly opened High line, a raised-track park full of good and green ideas that starts at Gansevoort and grows right past our kitchen windows up the West side toward 34th street. Other great gardening books aimed at kids, full of stories, edible education, scientific experiments and good old fashioned muddy fun, are highlighted in one of my favorite websites dedicated to and called Gardening With Kids. And of course, I can't forget my all-time favorite garden story, The Secret Garden, that not only helped me imagine the abandoned chicken coop on my grandparents farm as my own walled garden, but also encouraged my affection for skipping rope, British dialects and fashioning phrases like pride goeth before a fall into my 12-year-old vocabulary. As we gather more garden-inspired stories for our own Good Food Gardens Library, send us your favorites and what you love or loved about them.