Book Review: The Sprite and the Gardener by Rii Abrego + Joe Whitt

April 25, 2024

This book was absolutely lovely. It is beautifully illustrated and touches on the topics of working together and building a community for the common good.

We follow the story of a young sprite named Wisteria and how she struggles to fit in with the new sprites she meets. ( I am not sure how she comes upon this group of sprites or why she knows no one, that isn’t really touched on in the book) and Wisteria meets a young gardener that she sees is struggling with making her backyard into the haven she is wanting to. The young gardeners mother had once hade the garden a beautiful and welcoming space, but she had to work much more than she did before, which left the garden on the back burners.

Overall I would recommend this book, but there are some plot holes that make the story a little rushed and hard to understand. I would have liked this book to have more of a backstory.