Flora's Surprise — Debi Gliori

Flora's brothers and sisters tease her when she plants a brick in a flowerpot and insists that she's growing a house.It's springtime, and Flora's family is busy planting flowers and vegetables. Why don't you grow something? says Flora's Dad. Some pretty flowers? says Flora's mom. But Flora finds a brick and puts it in a flowerpot, insisting that it will one day become a house. Of course, her brothers and sisters laugh. But Flora has the last laugh in the following spring, when she discovers that a bird has made its home in her flowerpot.