Grady Thrasher and Elaine Rabon

Author Grady Thrasher and illustrator Elaine Rabon will share the joy of gardening with Tim and Sally’s Vegetable Garden (Hill Street Press, March 2007) on Sat. Oct. 13 at 11am at Barnes & Noble Booksellers, 5141 Peachtree Parkway, The Forum, in Norcross.

Grady and Elaine will host a special harvest story time with plenty of carrot cookies and seedlings to go around. Tim and Sally’s Vegetable Garden (www.timandsally.com) is a picture book written in verse about vegetable gardening, from planting the first seed to sharing their healthy harvest with family and friends. The book is geared for children ages 3-8 and includes a journal and glossary.

Be sure to stick around for a “Tim and Sally Love Schools” drawing for a $200 Barnes and Noble gift certificate at noon. For each copy of Tim and Sally’s Vegetable Garden purchased at Barnes & Noble at The Forum this Saturday, the purchaser will receive an entry form on which to name the school of his/her choice. At 12pm, a winner will be selected in a blind drawing. The winner’s designated school will receive a $200 Barnes & Noble gift certificate in the customer’s name, courtesy of Hill Street Press.

Both the author and illustrator are “locally grown.” Grady Thrasher was an Atlanta attorney for more than 30 years before retiring to Athens. He learned vegetable gardening as a child from his grandmother and continues to garden on his sixty-acre farm in Watkinsville. Elaine Rabon, who created the nostalgic illustrations, also lives in Athens. Tim and Sally’s Vegetable Garden is their first book, to be followed by Tim and Sally’s Beach Adventure (Hill Street Press, March 2008.)

Terry Kay, acclaimed author of To Dance With the White Dog and the new Book of Marie, calls Tim and Sally’s Vegetable Garden, “A wonderfully written and stunningly illustrated children’s book about gardening of the soil—and of the soul.”