Some of my most favorite gifts to both give and receive are books. So from now until Christmas I’ll be sharing a variety of my favorites. Today’s pick is a children’s picture book. The pictures are as fabulous as the story (not surprising since it’s a Caldecott Honor Book).

From Booklist:

Bear and Hare are involved in a gardening partnership, with industrious, clever Hare reaping all the vegetable profits.

From School Library Journal:

Lazy Bear sleeps through every planting season, so conniving Hare makes a deal. He and his family will work Bear’s land and split the crops in half. He’ll even let Bear choose which half he wants?”tops or bottoms.” Bear chooses tops so Hare plants root crops, leaving Bear with a useless harvest. A furious Bear insists next time he’ll take bottoms so Hare plants corn . . .