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The Boy in the Garden - Allen Say
The Boy in the Garden
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Format: kindle
ASIN: B0047747OC
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages no: 32
Edition language: English
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All of that Nonsense
All of that Nonsense rated it
0.0
Beautiful illustrations and writing to tell the tale of a boy's adventure's through a man's garden and finding a statue of a crane.
debnance
debnance rated it
3.0 The Boy in the Garden
The Boy in the Garden is really two stories. One is an old folktale about a man who saved a struggling crane from a trap, met and married a young woman who made a beautiful cloth each night and who begged her husband not to look upon her while she worked, and discovered his wife was the crane he sav...
Allusion is not Illusion
Allusion is not Illusion rated it
3.0
As usual, Say's lovely paintings are stronger than his story, but I did find this story stronger than his norm. I liked the way he combined a myth (the Crane Wife) with a contemporary child's experience of hearing the story -- more original than the standard "retelling" or "modernization" of a fairy...
Peace, Love & Books
Peace, Love & Books rated it
4.0 The Boy in the Garden
A legend comes to life for a little boy. A gentle, quiet tale.
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