Gwendolyn longs for a pet. But her parents have other ideas, and instead they give her...a box of dirt. Her parents say it smells of possibilities and when the dirt starts performing some amazing tricks, Gwendolyn discovers she has a whole pet garden.

Author Anne Renaud is based in Quebec and illustrator Rashin Kheiriyeh previously worked on our acclaimed Kyo Maclear title, Story Boat. (From Nancy Paulsen Books)

Anne Renaud has written over a dozen books of fiction, historical nonfiction and picture books.

Rashin Kheiriyeh is an Iranian-born, Washington DC-based, award-winning artist and author. She has published over 80 children's books internationally and won 50 international and national awards. Her work has appeared in New York Times, Google, Scholastic, Simon & Schuster, Penguin Random House, Kennedy Center and Stanford University, among others. She is a lecturer in the Department of Art at the University of Maryland.