"I Beg Your Pardon, But This Is My Garden" is a whimsically illustrated story poem that offers life lessons about nature and co-existence. Educators have described the book as being "as entertaining as it is educational." The story features a group of garden bugs whose fears escalate as they argue about who owns the garden. Paul Irving Pickett, a wise but cranky old cricket, settles matters at the end of a very long day.