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jormis29
Since: Mar, 2012
Sharlee
Since: Jul, 2014

No clue about the title, but I remember reading this short paperback book as a kid. It was about wild animals in a town - squirrels, rabbits, birds, maybe deer - and their suspicions about the big elaborate garden that some new human arrivals had cultivated. The animals were used to being trapped and fenced out and chased off, and were wary of coming into the garden, even though it was full of all the plants and cool water and sunny patches they liked. They were especially wary of a strange covered object that had been placed in the center of the garden ... one that, at the end, was revealed to be a statue of St. Francis. Realizing these humans genuinely loved animals, the various creatures happily visited the garden without harming it, and in the last scene, a neighbor who's been spraying and trapping and fencing in vain for years marvels at how nice the newcomers' garden looks, despite having no such precautions.