Gardens Are for Growing

With Chelsea Tornetto
| 12:00 p.m. | Neighborhood Reads

Chelsea Tornetto, award-winning children’s book author and author coach from Jackson, Missouri, will read her picture book Gardens Are For Growing. The book is a lyrical, rhyming picture book celebrating how growing a garden is like raising children, and how the simple joys of childhood are what draw us all back home.  The reading will be followed by a kid-friendly craft activity and book signing.

Chelsea Tornetto

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Chelsea Tornetto

Chelsea Tornetto is a former teacher turned author. Her first book, Conquering Content Vocabulary, was published by Scholastic in 2018, but now her passion is picture books. She is the author of Gardens Are For Growing (Familius 2022) and God Made You Too (WorthyKids 2022), with more titles on the way. When she isn’t working on her own stories, she helps others follow their dreams of writing for children as a freelance editor and author coach for At Home Author. Chelsea lives in Jackson, Missouri with her husband, Mike, and her two kids, Tessa and Milo. She loves snow days, lattes, and Target. She hates spiders, her sinuses, and laundry. You can find her on X and on her website.
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Washington, MO, August 25–27
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