'Gardening with children' in statistics

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April 4, 2005 - Kim Wilde's first book 'Gardening with children' was officially released today. Some facts and figures about the book.

'Gardening with children' contains 128 pages. The first part of the book, featuring a listing of contents and a few introductions, takes up 24 pages. Pages 25 through 123 are divided by the four seasons: Spring (page 25-59), Summer (page 60-111), Autumn (page 112-119) and Winter (120-123). Finally, a plant directory and acknowledgements take up the final five pages.

The book contains 447 photographs, with one appearing on the front cover, one on the inside of the jacket and twenty on the back cover. Kim appears in 58 of these photographs, but husband Hal only appears on seven photographs, all of them on pages 78 and 79.

Kim is assisted by six children in the book: Bryony (8), Darcey (11), Harry (6), Holly (8), Luke (6) and Rose (4). The book describes 31 different projects, stating an age range for each of them. One is meant for children aged 2 onwards, one for 3 onwards, thirteen for 4 onwards, one for 5 onwards, eleven for 6 onwards and four for 8 onwards.

The plant directory on pages 124-127 contains 158 names, divided into nine categories.

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