The Curious Garden
One boy's quest for a greener world... one garden at a time.While out exploring one day, a little boy named Liam discovers a struggling garden and decides to take care of it. As time passes, the garden spreads throughout the dark, gray city, transforming it into a lush, green world. This is an...
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One boy's quest for a greener world... one garden at a time.While out exploring one day, a little boy named Liam discovers a struggling garden and decides to take care of it. As time passes, the garden spreads throughout the dark, gray city, transforming it into a lush, green world. This is an enchanting tale with environmental themes and breathtaking illustrations that become more vibrant as the garden blooms. Red-headed Liam can also be spotted on every page, adding a clever seek-and-find element to this captivating picture book.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780316015479 (0316015474)
Pages no: 40
Edition language: English
For a book with a message, I should be at a 2 or 3. But the illustrations evoked an immediate response in me that made me read and reread the book a few times. Maybe it reminded me of when I was a kid and grandma let us draw on the big formica table in the kitchen. We would design complicated citysc...
A beautiful book both inside and out! The illustrations are delightful and so is the story. A particularly nice pick for urban kids!
My kids (and I) loved this book about a little boy who finds a spark of life amidst urban decay, tends it, and leads to a garden taking over the city (in a good way). Beautiful artwork, too.
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