Up in the Garden and Down in the Dirt (2015), written by Kate Messner and illustrated by Christopher Silas Neal, follows a girl and her grandmother as they tend their garden through the changing seasons. The story moves between two perspectives: above the ground, where the girl plants, waters, and harvests vegetables, and below the ground, where insects, worms, and other small creatures work unseen in the soil. Each page reveals the connections between what happens in the sunlight and what takes place in the dirt beneath. As time passes, the garden grows, thrives, and eventually rests for the winter. The narrative traces the cycle of growth from spring planting to autumn harvest, showing how life continues both above and below the surface of the garden.