Spring. Summer. Autumn. Winter. The garden changes with every season of the year. New surprises, new shoots, and new jobs for the gardener.•Orange/ Band 6 books offer varied text and characters, with action sustained over several pages.• Text type—an information book.• At the end of the book is a useful checklist of gardeners’ jobs in each season, which can be used for oral recap or to support children’s writing outside the reading session.• Curriculum links—science: "Pupils should be taught to observe changes across the four seasons."