Celia Planted a Garden: The Story of Celia Thaxter and Her Island Garden Advent readings Needham authored the notebook on

Needham authored the notebook on Insects

Melissa Sweet's watercolor

which was named a Best Poetry Book by the National Council of Teachers of English

author of Rule of the Bone

Bushel & Peck Books

Celia Planted a Garden: The Story of Celia Thaxter and Her Island Garden Advent readings Needham authored the notebook onFrom an all star team comes a lyrical picture book biography about a writer and master gardener who created beauty in a harsh island habitat that was visited by literary and artistic luminaries of her time. Celia Thaxter grew up on a desolate island off the coast of Maine, where her father worked as lighthouse keeper. Amid the white and gray of the sea, the rocks, and even the birds, young Celia found color where she could: green mosses and purple