Hello, I have searched and searched and can't seem to find this story.
It's about a boy who used to push vegetables on to his fork using his thumb (and people would tell him he shouldn't). It somehow made his thumb start to grow a garden and there were drawings of this boy dragging this garden on his thumb with him to school.
I remember hearing this story when I was little and it got me to use my knife instead of my thumb from then on.
Does anyone know what this story is? I seem to think it was Shel Silverstein but haven't been able to find it.
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garden growing on thumb... what's the book?
I am searching for this book as well! I have been telling my own children about this story & would love to find it. The author is not Shel Silverstein; I always thought it was Maurice Sendak, but unfortunately I don't think it is him either. If anyone can tell me the name or author of this book, I would greatly appreciate it.
Garden growing on thumb by: Anonymous
Me too! Librarians look at me as if crazy!
book title by: Darrell Baker
I was talking about this with my wife at lunch today, and couldn't remember the title. I did finally run across it; Gaston's Ghastly Green Thumb. That book has stuck in my mind all these years. Everytime I see someone use their thumb to push something on a fork. I think about it. I didn't think anyone else had read it. The only copy I could find was $35, so it will remain a found memory, but at least I did find a picture of the boy with his garden. That's really all I wanted was to show that to my wife. Here's a link to the pic; http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51W5iEQ0WoL._SL500_.jpg
. That book has stuck in my mind all these years. Everytime I see someone use their thumb to push something on a fork. I think about it. I didn't think anyone else had read it. The only copy I could find was $35, so it will remain a found memory, but at least I did find a picture of the boy with his garden. That's really all I wanted was to show that to my wife. Here's a link to the pic; http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51W5iEQ0WoL._SL500_.jpg
