Grandpa Green - Lane Smith

Descriere Grandpa Green - Lane Smith

Grandpa Green wasn't always a gardener. He was a farmboy, a kid with chickenpox, a soldier, and an artist. In this captivating new picture book, readers follow Grandpa Green's great-grandson into a garden he created, a fantastic world where memories are handed down in the fanciful shapes of topiary trees. \n \nA Caldecott Honor Book \n \nFrom the creator of the national bestseller It's a Book comes a Caldecott Honor-winning timeless story of family history, legacy, and love. \n \nGrandpa Green wasn't always a gardener. He was a farmboy and a kid with chickenpox and a soldier and, most of all, an artist. In this captivating new picture book, readers follow Grandpa Green's great-grandson into a garden he created, a fantastic world where memories are handed down in the fanciful shapes of topiary trees and imagination recreates things forgotten. \n \nIn his most enigmatic and beautiful work to date, Lane Smith explores aging, memory, and the bonds of family history and love; by turns touching and whimsical, it's a stunning picture book that parents and grandparents will be sharing with children for years to come. \n \nThis title has Common Core connections. \n \nGrandpa Green is a Publishers Weekly Best Children's Picture Books title for 2011. \nOne of School Library Journal's Best Picture Books of 2011.\n

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Brand

Roaring Brook Press

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ENSTK

EAN / GTIN

9781596436077

Magazine

1

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